Vocab Flashcards
(19 cards)
What is a predator?
An organism that hunts weaker organisms.
What is prey?
A weaker organism.
What is succession?
The coming of a person after another person in an order.
What is an energy pyramid?
The model of energy flow.
What’s a food web?
Feeding within a community.
Decomposer
An organism that decomposes organic material.
Food chain
A hierarchical series of organisms that depend on the next as a food source.
Coniferous
A type of tree that produces cones and pine needles.
Producer
An organism that makes its own food.
Biotic factor
A living part of an ecosystem.
Cycle
A process that repeats.
Water cycle
The movement of water.
Abiotic factor
All the non living parts of a system.
Carbon cycle
A process where carbon compounds into living tissue through photosynthesis and returned to the atmosphere by desperation into air.
Deciduous
A forest containing trees that lose their leaves every year.
Biome
A major ecological community.
Consumer
An organism that eats other living organisms to get energy.
Ecology
The branch of biology that deals with the relations of others.
Nitrogen cycle
The process of nitrogen
