Ecosystem Vovcb Dex Flashcards
Energy pyramid
A model that shows the available amount of energy in each trophic layer of an ecosystem
Food web
A model that shows many different feeding relationships amoug living things
Decomposer
Organisms that carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms
Food chain
A model that shows one set of feeding relationships amoung living things
Coniferous
A type of plant with needle like leaves that use cones to repurduce
Counsumer
An organism that eats other living things to get energy ; an organism that dose not produce its own food (reflated word : consume)
Biome
A major ecological community such as grassland, tropical rain forest, or desert
Deciduous
A frost containing trees that lose there leaves each year
Ecology
The branch of biology that deals with the relationship of organisms to one another and to there physical surounding
Cycle
A repeated procces
Nitrogen cycle
A process n witch nitrogen in the atmosphere enters the soil and becomes part of living organisms then eventually returns to the atmosphere
Biotic factors
All of the living parts of an ecosystem
Water cycle
An countanuail movement of water between the land, ocean, and the air
Abiotic factors
All of the non living parts of an ecosystem
Producer
An organism that makes its own food an original that dose not consume other plants or animals
