Vocabulary words 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 of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms
Food chain
A model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things
Coniferous
Any of various mostly needle-leaved or scale-leaved, chiefly evergreen, cone-bearing gymnospermous trees or shrubs of the order Conifer-ales, such as pines, spruces, and firs
Consumer
An organism that eats other living things to get energy, an organism that does not produce its own food (related word: consume)
Biome
A major ecological community such as grassland, tropical rain forest, or desert
Deciduous
(Of a tree or shrub) shedding its leaves annually
Ecology
A basic presentation of ecological concepts for the visual learner or (study of life)
Cycle
A process that repeats (related word:cyclic)
Nitrogen Cycle
A process in which nitrogen in the atmosphere enters the soil and becomes part of living organisms then eventually returns to the…
Biotic Factors
They are living components of an ecosystem. They are sorted into three groups: producers or autotrophs, consumers or heterotrophs, and decomposers or detritivores.
Water Cycle
The continual movement of water between the land, ocean, and the air
Abiotic Factors
A nonliving condition or thing, as climate or habitat, that influences or affects an ecosystem and organisms in it
Producer
An organism that makes its own food; an organism that does not consume other plants or animals
Carbon Cycle
Follows many paths as it cycles between Earth’s land, air, and oceans
Predator
An animal that hunts and eats other animals
Pray
An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal
Succession
The progressive replacement of one community by another until a climax community is established.
Pioneering species
First specie in an area
Mutualism
Both benefit
Commensalism
One helps/ gets something or benefits and other is not harmed
Parasitism
One gets something or benefits and other is harmed
Limiting Factors
Predators, food and water, human activity, population, shelter, space, illness, habitat, offspring, weather, and imbalance of gender. Parry loopant.
