Ecosystem

Question 1

Energy pyramid

Answer 1

A model that shows the available amount of energy in each tropic layer in an ecosystem

Question 2

Food web

Answer 2

A model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things

Question 3

Decomposed

Answer 3

Organisms witch carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down and decaying organisms

Question 4

Food chain

Answer 4

A model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things

Question 5

Coniferous

Answer 5

Plants that produce reproductive organs called cones

Question 6

Consumer

Answer 6

An organisms that eats other living things to get energy

Question 7

Biome

Answer 7

A major ecological community such as grassland , tropical rainforest , or desert

Question 8

Deciduous

Answer 8

Shedding its leaves annually

Question 9

Ecology

Answer 9

The branch of biology that deals with the relationships of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings

Question 10

Cycle

Answer 10

A process that repeats

Question 11

Nitrogen cycle

Answer 11

A process in witch nitrogen in the atmosphere enters the soil and becomes part of living organisms then eventually returns to the atmosphere

Question 12

Biotic factors

Answer 12

Living things in an area

Question 13

Water cycle

Answer 13

The continual movement of water between the land, ocean, and the air

Question 14

Abotic

Answer 14

Non living things

Question 15

Producer

Answer 15

An organism that make its own food

Question 16

Carbon cycle

Answer 16

A natural cycle in witch carbon compounds, mainly carbon dioxide, are incorporated into living tissue through photosynthesis and returned to the atmosphere by respiration, decay of dead organisms, and the burning of fossil fuel

Question 17

Predator

Answer 17

A animal that hunts and eats other animals

Question 18

Prey

Answer 18

An animal that is hunted by a predator

Question 19

Succession

Answer 19

The sequence of communities that develop in an area