Vocab Flashcards
What is a predator?
An organism that hunts weaker organisms.
What is prey?
A weaker organism.
What is succession?
The coming of a person after another person in an order.
What is an energy pyramid?
The model of energy flow.
What’s a food web?
Feeding within a community.
Decomposer
An organism that decomposes organic material.
Food chain
A hierarchical series of organisms that depend on the next as a food source.
Coniferous
A type of tree that produces cones and pine needles.
Producer
An organism that makes its own food.
Biotic factor
A living part of an ecosystem.
Cycle
A process that repeats.
Water cycle
The movement of water.
Abiotic factor
All the non living parts of a system.
Carbon cycle
A process where carbon compounds into living tissue through photosynthesis and returned to the atmosphere by desperation into air.
Deciduous
A forest containing trees that lose their leaves every year.
