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Chapter 5 vocab
Vocab
| Question | |
|---|---|
| Pioneer Species | the first organisms to colonize any newly available area and begin the process of ecological succession. |
| Consumers | organisms that get their energy by eating other organisms. |
| Producers | is an organism that makes its own food. |
| Nitrogen-fixing bacteria | The only organisms that can fix atmospheric nitrogen into chemical compounds are a few species of bacteria |
| Food chain | is a sequence in which energy is transferred from one organism to the next as each organ- ism eats another organism. |
| Photosynthesis | when a plant uses sunlight to make sugar molecules |
| Decomposers | get their food by breaking down dead organisms |
| Primary succession | is a type of succession that occurs on a surface where no ecosystem existed before. |