Ecosystems Flashcards
Habitat
A Place were an organism lives
Biotic Factors
Living Organisms that live in an ecosystem
Abiotic Factors
Nonliving organisms in an ecosystem
Population
Species Grouping {ex. Snake, Bird , Tree Population }
Enviorment
Living and Nonliving Things around an organism
Community
Organisms that live together is an ecosystem
Species
A Group of living organisms including similar individuals
Adaptation
Structure of behavior that allows a species to survive and reproduce in it’s environment
Niche
A role that each species plays in it’s community
Biome
A biome is regions of the world with similar climate,animal,and plants.
Deciduous Forest
Deciduous Forests are forests that can be found in Eastern States such as, United States, Canada, Europe, China, and Russia.
Desert
A desert is a biome that covers about 1/5 of the earth.
Taiga
The Taiga biome is the largest biome.
Tundra
The Tundra is the coldest biome on earth.
Tropical Rainforest
The Tropical Rainforest biome is located close to the equator.
Grasslands
The weather in the Grasslands varies greatly.
Producer
A producer is an organism that produces it’s own food using the sun’s energy.
Consumer
An organism that consumes it’s energy by eating food.
Decomposer
A decomposer is an organism that dissolves abiotic organisms.
Herbivore
A herbivore is an organism that ONLY eats herbs or plants.
Carnivore
A carnivore is an organism that eats ONLY meat or flesh.
Omnivore
An omnivore is an organism that eats both MEAT and HERBS.
Food Chain
A food chain is a way of transferring energy to one organism to the next.
Food Web
A food web is a series of transferring energy from one species to another.It is also made of many different food chains.
