Question | Answer |
Biosphere | the top portion of earths crust,all the waters that cover earths surface and the surrounding atmosphere |
Ecosystem | all the organisms living in an area and the non living features of their enviorment |
Community | amade up of different populations |
populations | organisms in an ecosystem that consist of the same species |
habitat | place where an organism is |
niche | specific rule in an ecosystem(how they survive) |
producers | this is the energy source that drives an ecosystem |
consumers | organisms that cannot make their own energy |
Predators | organisms that capture and eat other consumers |
autotrophs | organisms that use an outside energy source to make their own energy rich food |
limiting factor | this is anything that restricts the number of individuals in a population |
Food chains | a simple model of feeding relationships |
Prey | organisms that are being captured and eaten |
omnivore | this types of consumers eats both plants and animals |
decomposers | organisms are recyclers because they return nutrients to the soil fro other organisms to use |
herbivores | only eat producers |
scavengers | these organisms feed on the bodies of dead organisms |
abiotic | non-living |
biotic | living |
what happens to other 90%?? | used for life process or lost as heat in the enviorment |
how they obtain food | autotrophs or heterotrophs |
Formula for glucose | C6H12O6 |
primary succesion | without soil |
secondary succesion | with soil |
pioneer species | dont need soil |