Semester Final Flashcards
Energy pyramid
A model that shows the availableamount of energy in a layer of a ecosystem
Food Chain
A chain of life that involves Eating plants then eating that animal then another animal eats it then the last animal dies and decomposes
Food Web
A model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things.
Producer
A Plants or root based object that produces food for its self and for others.
Consumer
A Animal That eats the Leafs or meat off of other animals or plants
Biome
A large amount of ecosystems in one area forming one big ecosystem called a biome
Ecology
The Study of plants and animals and certain parts of the planet
Nitrogen Cycle
A process in which nitrogen in the atmosphere enters the soil and becomes part of a living organism
Water Cycle
The Water cycle is were water from anywhere evaporates and turns in to rain and goes back into a stream
Carbon Cycle
The carbon cycle is were it goes into the ground gets put with oxygen and goes back into the air
Biotic Factors
Something that keeps it cell structure
Abiotic Factors
Something thats cell structure has changed
Predator
Something that hunts smaller animals or weaker animals
Prey
Something that is hunted by bigger animals
Succession
Succession is something that you did
Levels of organization
The levels of how many there are in one area
Lab safety
The rules of being safe in a lab
Metric system
The system that uses units to count how long
Dependent variable
A variable that tells you what they did
Independent variable
A variable that shows another way they did it
Constant variable
Another variable that also shows another way of doing it
Hypothesis
A scientific guess that you think will happen
