Ecosystem Vocabulary Flashcards
A model that show the available amount of energy in each trophic layer in an ecosystem
Energy Pyramid
A model that shows many different feeding relations among living things
Food Web
Organisms that carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms
Decomposer
A model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things
Food Chain
A type of plant with needle-like leaves that uses cones to reproduce
Coniferous
An organism that eats other living things to get energy; an organism that doesn’t produce its own food ; an organism that does not produce its own food (related word: consume)
Consumer
A major ecological community such as a grassland, tropical rainforest, or a desert
Biome
A forest containing trees that lose their leaves each year
Deciduous
The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings
Ecology
A process that repeats
Cycle
A process in which nitrogen in the atmosphere enters the soil and becomes part of a living organism then eventually returns to the atmosphere
Nitrogen Cycle
All of the living parts of an ecosystem
Biotic Factors
The continual movement of water between the land, ocean, and air
Water Cycle
All of the non living parts of an ecosystem
Abiotic Factors
An organism that makes its own food ; an organism that does not consume other plants or animals
Producer
