Sad Deck Flashcards
(24 cards)
Energy pyramid
A model that shows the available amount of energy in each trophic layer in an ecosystem.
Food web
A model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things in given area.
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
Plants that produce repodutive organs called
Cones.
Consumer
An organism that eats other living things to get energy
Biome
A major ecological community such as grass land,tropical,rain forest or desert.
Deciduous
A forest containing trees that lose leaves each year.
Ecology
The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical.
Cycle
the movement of a substance through different reservoirs or stages.
Nitrogen Cycle
a process in which nitrogen in the atmosphere enters the soil and becomes part of living organisms then eventually returns to the atmosphere.
Biotic factors
Living things include plants, animals, bacteria, fungi and more
Water Cycle
the continual movement of water between the land, ocean, and the air through predictable physical processes.
Abiotic Factor
non-living chemical and physical parts of the environment that affect living organisms and the functioning of ecosystems.
Producer
an organism that makes its own food; an organism that does not consume other plants or animals
Carbon Cycle
the series of processes by which carbon compounds are interconverted in the environment, chiefly involving the incorporation of carbon dioxide into living tissue by photosynthesis and its return to the atmosphere through respiration, the decay of dead organisms, and the burning of fossil fuels.
predator
an animal that naturally preys on others.
Prey
an animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal
Succession
the action or process of inheriting a title, office, property, etc.
Levels of organization
cells, tissue, organs, organ systems, and organisms. All living things are made up of cells
Independent variable
The 1thing that could change
Dependent variable
The thing that could change
Constant variable
The thing that stays the same
Hypothesis
dea that is proposed for the sake of argument so that it can be tested to see if it might be true.
