Ecosystem Flashcards
Prey
An animal that is hunted and eaten by others
Predator
An animal that hunts other animals to eat
Producers
Use sunlight and carbon dioxide to make food for themselves herivorous consumers depend on producer food
Consumer
Organisms that cannot make their own food for nourishment are called consumers
The group of organisms of the same area
Population
A group of a different populations that live together and interact in an environment
Community
Biodiversity
The variety of species that exist in an environment
Biosphere
That part of Earth in which life can exist.
A model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things
Food Chain
A model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things
Food Web
Habitat
The location in which an organism live
A major ecological community such as grassland,desert,tropical rainforest.
Biome
All living -nonliving things in an area that interact with each other
Ecosystems
The place or role that an organisms has in it’s habitat
Niche
Lightning fixing
Gaseous nitrogen attaches to perspiration
