Ecosystems

Question 1

Biome

Answer 1

A major ecological community such as grassland tropical rain forest or desert

Question 2

Energy pyramid

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Food web

Answer 3

A model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things

Question 4

Decomposer

Answer 4

Organisms which carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms

Question 5

Food chain

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Coniferous

Answer 6

Plants that produce reproductive organs called cones

Question 7

Consumer

Answer 7

An organism that eats other living things to get energy or organism that does not produce its own food

Question 8

Deciduous

Answer 8

A forest containing trees that lose there leaves each year

Question 9

Ecology

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Cycle

Answer 10

A process that repeats

Question 11

Abiotic factor

Answer 11

All of the non living parts of a ecosystem

Question 12

Producer

Answer 12

An organism that makes its own food an organism that does not like other plants and animals

Question 13

Carbon cycle

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Predator

Answer 14

A animal that hunts and eats other animals

Question 15

Prey

Answer 15

A animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal

Question 16

Succession

Answer 16

The sequence of communities that develop in a area

Question 17

Nitrogen cycle

Answer 17

A process in which nitrogen in the atmosphere enters the soil and becomes part of living organism that eventually return to the atmosphere