Vocab. Flashcards
Energy Pyramid
A model that shows the available amount of energy in each tropic layer in an ecosystem
Food Web
A model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things
Decomposer
organisms which carry out the process decomposing by breaking down dead or decaying organisms
Food Chain
In an ecosystem, nutrients and energy proceed from producers through a series of consumers, to decomposers.
A single set of such feeding relationships forms a food chain.
Coniferous
any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit.
Consumer
A consumer is any animal that eats plants or other plant-eating animals.
Biome
One of the Earth’s large ecosystems, with its own kind of climate, soil, plants, and animals.
Deciduous
A deciduous forest experiences cold winters and mild summers.
Ecology
Ecology is the branch of science dealing with the relationships living things have with each other and their environment.
Cycle
A cycle is for example like a houses fly cycle the house fly starts as eggs, then those eggs hatch, once the hatch they become maggots, then they make pupaes’, once they come out their pupae they are full grown house flies
Nitrogen Cycle
Physical, biological, and industrial processes affect the nitrogen cycle.
Biotic factors
Living things, such as plants and animals, that are part of an ecosystem.
Water Cycle
Water from rivers and lakes evaporates and rises into the air. As the water vapor rises, the temperature falls and it condenses into clouds. Water returns to Earth’s surface in the form of rain, snow, or hail
Abiotic Factor
Abiotic factors are the non-living factors in an environment, such as water, climate, and soil.
Producer
A producer is any plant or algae that produces the food and oxygen that animals need.
