Vocab Sic 1 Flashcards
Food web
A food web shows all the feeding relationships between plants, and animals and how they are intercepted with multiple paths.
Food chain
On how plants and animals get there food(grass eat’s sunlight, caterpillar eats grass, frog eats caterpillar, snake eats frog, hawk eats snake)
Decomposer
It means that things break down and absorbs nutrients from decaying organisms and waste mater
BIOME
Biome means different habitats like the their rain forest and the desert
CONIFEROUS
Means that pine trees and other plants with green needles are calls conifers. When the seed falls from the tree when the tree is ripe the it makes a plant.
Energy pyramid
The food chain pyramid, cows are the the primary consumers they eat on produces. Snakes feed on primary consumers. Tertiary consumers feed on the carnivores like snakes they are the top of the pyramid.
Deciduous forest
It is a forest contains trees that loos their leaves each year
Ecology
It means the political movement that seeks to protect the surroundings
CYCLE
I’t means that a substance moves though a series of events in which it ic continually recycled
Nitrogen cycle
It means that the nitrogen in the atmosphere has to fixed or combined before it can be used by plants and animals
Prey
A prey is an animal that is hunted by other animals
Nitrogen cycle
Nitrogen in the atmosphere has to be fixed before it can be used by plants and animals
Carbon cycle
It is carbon that moves constantly through the atmosphere
Water cycle
The water cycle is a geochemical cycle of water between earth oceans and the sky
Predator
A predator is an animal that hunts other animals for food
