Ecology Flashcards
Energy Pyramid
A model that shows the available amount of energy in each trophic layer in a ecosystem.
Food web
A model that shows many different relationships among living things in a given area.
Decomposer
Organisms which carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms.
Food Chain
A model that shows on set of feeding relationships among living things.
Coniferous
Pine trees and other shaped plants with like leaves.
Consumer
An organism that eats other living things.
Biome
Large areas like rain forests and like desserts.
Deciduous
Is a forest with trees and the trees leaves change each each season.
Ecology
The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms.
Cycle
A cycle is a substance that moves through different events.
Nitrogen cycle
A proceeds in which nitrogen in the atmosphere enters the soil and becomes a part of living organisms.
Biotic factors
Living things that are living in the shape of an ecosystem.
Water cycle
The water cycle is a geochemical cycle of water between Earth and oceans.
Abiotic factor
Non living factors in an environment
Producer
Producers use sunlight and carbon dioxide to make food for themselves
