click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Stack #4105708
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Biotic Factors | a living thing as a animal or a plant that influences or affects an ecosystem |
| Abiotic Factors | a nonliving condition or things such as a climate or habitat that influences or affects an ecosystem and the organisms in it |
| Producers | an organism as a plant that is able to produce its own food from inorganic substances |
| Consumers | animal that feeds on plant or other animals |
| Decomposers | an organism usually as a bacterium or fungus that breaks down the cells of dead plants and animals into simpler substances |
| Herbivore | animals that get their energy by eating only producers or plants |
| Carnivore | animals that get their energy by eating other producers |
| biotic factors | of a living thing as a animal or a place that influences or affects |
| Abiotic factors | A non-living condition or thing such as a climate or having a based Community influences or effects and an ecosystem and the organism in it. |
| Producers | An organism as a plant that feeds on plants or other animals |
| Consumers | , usually an animal, that feeds on plants or other animals. |
| Decomposer | An organism usually a bacterium or fungus that breaks down the cells of dead plants and animals into simpler substances. |
| Herbivore | Animals that get their energy by only eating producers or plants |
| Carnivore | Animals get their energy by only eating other consumers. |
| Omnivore | Animals that get their energy by eating both producers and consumers |
| Predator | The organism that is this by preying on other organisms |
| Prey | animal hunted or seized for food especially by a carnivores animal |
| terrestrial ecosystem | a land - based community of organisms |
| Aquatic Ecosystem | an ecosystem in the body of water |
| Food Chains | the path of food energy from one organism to the other organisms in an ecosystem |
| Food webs | a system of interlocking and interdependent food web. |
| Energy Pyramid | a graphical representation of the energy found within the trophic levels of an ecosystem |
| Competition | the direct or indirect interaction of organisms that leads to a change in fitness when the organisms share the same resource. |
| Natural Resources | Resources that the earth provides without you doing anything. |
| Population | The amount of living organisms in an area. |
| Community | a diverse group of organisms that interact in a common location |
| Habitat | a diverse group of organisms that interact in a common location |
| Estuary | the tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream. |
| Brakish | A mix of a saltwater ecosystem and a freshwater ecosystem to form a different ecosystem that is called a brakish ecosytem or mix of salt and freshwater |