Vocabulary Words Flashcards
Energy Pyramid
A model that shows the available amount of energy in each trophic layer in an ecosystem
Food pyramid
A graphic representation of predatory relationships in the food chain in which various various forms of life are shown on different levels?
Decomposer
An organism that decomposes organic material.
Food chain
A series of organisms where they are dependent on the next source as food.
Coniferous
Evergreen trees and shrubs having needle shape or scale like leaves.
Consumer
A thing that eats or uses something
Biome
A large natural occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat
Deciduous
A tree or shrub shedding its leaves annually
Ecology
The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and their physical surroundings.
Cycle
The series of an event that are regularly repeated in the same order
Nitrogen cycle
The series of processes by which nitrogen and its compounds are inter converted in the environment and in living organisms including nitrogen fixation and decomposition.
Biotic factors
The things living in an ecosystems
Water cycle
The process in which water circulates between the ocean and other factors involving evaporation and precipitation
Abiotic factors
A non living condition or thing that effects an ecosystem and the organisms in it
Producer
A person or thing that makes, grows and supplies goods
