Ecosystem Flashcards
Energy pyramid
A model that shows the available amount of energy in each tropic layer in an ecosystem
Food web
A model that shows many different feeding relationship among living things in a given area
Decomposed
Organisms witch carry out the process of decomposion by breaking down dead or decaying organisms
Food chain
A model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things
Coniferous
Any of an order of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle shaped
Consumer
A person or thing that eats or uses something
Biome
A major ecological community such as grass land tropical rain forests or desert
Deciduous
A forest containing trees that lose their leaves each year
Ecology
The branch of biology that deals with the relationship of organism
Nitrogen cycle
A process in witch nitrogen in the atmosphere enters the soil and becomes part of living organisms then eventually neturns to the atmosphere
Biotic factors
All of the living parts of an ecosystem
Water cycle
The continual movement of water between the land ocean and the air
Abiotic factor
All of the non living parts of an ecosystem
Producer
An organisms that makes its own food
Carbon cycle
A natural cycle in witch carbon compounds mainly carbon dioxide
