Ecosystems Vocabulary Flashcards
A model that shows available amount of energy in each trophic layer in an ecosystem.
Biome
a model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things:
Food web
organisms which 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: _
Conifers
an organism that eats other living things to get energy; an organism that does not produce its own food (related word: consume):
heterotroph
a major ecological community such as grassland, tropical rain forest, or desert: _
Biome
a forest containing trees that lose their leaves each year:
Temperate Deciduous Forest
the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings: _
Ecology
