Mr Cox Flashcards
Energy pyramid. An energy pyramid is graphical model of energy flow in a community.the different levels represent different groups of organisms that might compose a food chain.from the bottom up they are follows producer-bring energy from nonliving sources into the community
Food web or food cycle
A system of interlocking and independent food chains.
A series of organisms related by predators and prey and consumer-resource interactions the entirely interrelated food chains in an ecological community
Decomposed
Are organisms that break down down or decaying organisms and in doing so they carry out the natural process of decomposition . Like herbivores and predators decomposers are heterotrophic meaning that they use organic substrates to get their energy carbon and nutrients for growth and development
Food chain
A feeding hierarchy in witch organisms in an ecosystem are a grouped into trophic
Coniferous most likely evergreen trees or shrubs
Consumer
An organisms that generally obtains food by feeding on other organisms
Biome a major ecological community such as grassland, tropical rain forest, or desert
Deciduous a forest containing trees that lose their leaves each year
Ecology
The science concerned with interactive of living organisms with each other
Cycle
a process that repeats (related word: cyclic)
Biotic all of the living parts of an ecosystem
Water cycle the continual movement of water between the land, ocean, and the air through predictable physical processes
Abiotic factor all of the nonliving parts of an ecosystem
Producer an organism that makes its own food; an organism that does not consume other plants or animals
Carbon cycle 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 organisms, and the burning of fossil fuels
Predator an animal that eat other animals
Prey an animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal
Succession
The sequence of community that developed in a area