Words Flashcards
Detritus
Example-gravel ,sand ,dead leaves,road kill
Waste from plants and animals,including their dead remains
Decomposers
Example- mushroom
Bacteria+fungi feed on decaying matter
Habitat
Example- shelter,water,food,space,bee hive
Place where a species can live
Niche
Example- Gardner spider
An organisms role in the community
Ecology
Example-studying food chain in a wetlands area
Study on how organisms interact with each other
Abiotic
Example-sunlight ,water depth
Non living factors or influences on organisms
Biotic
Example-plants,animals,fungi
Factors caused by the presence and roles of other living things
Population
Example- people, animals
All of the members of the same species,living in the same ecosystem or habitat
Community
Example- all the species of a pond
Collection of all the populations of all the species in an ecosystem or habitat
Ecosystem
Example- forest,grass lands,deserts
Community of organisms that interact with each other
Photosynthesis
Carbon dioxide + water (light energy) sugar + oxygen
Limiting factor
Restricts the size of a population from reaching its full potential
Food web
A network of food chains
Food chain
A series of types of living things in which each one uses the next lower member as a source of food
Sustainability
Taking what we need to live now
Not being harmful to environment
Basic needs of living things
- oxygen
- water
- food
- energy
- suitable habitat (place to live)
Species
Most closely related groups of living things In an ecosystem that are able to produce fertile offspring
Producer
They are plants
Consumer
Eat living things to get the nutrients they need/animals
Scavenger
Are consumers that do not usually kill there own food
Competition
Living things completing for resources
Bioinvasion
The introduction of foreign species into native ecosystem
