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ecosystems
Science
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Biotic factors | a living thing, as an animal or plant, that influences or affects an ecosystem. |
| Abiotic factors | a non-living condition or thing such as climate or habitats that influences or affects an ecosystem and the in it. |
| Producers | an organism as a plant that is able to produce its own food from inorganic substances. |
| Consumers | an organism usually an animal that feeds on plants or other animals |
| Decomposer | an organism usually a bacterium or fungus that breaks down the cells |
| Herbivore | animals that get their energy by only eating producers or plants |
| Carnivore | animals that get their energy by only eating other consumers |
| Omnivore | animals that get their energy by eating both producers and consumers |
| Predator | any organism that exists by preying on other organisms |
| Prey | an animal haunted or seized for food especially by a carnivorous animals |
| Terrestrial ecosystem | a land-based community of organisms |
| Aquatic ecosystem | an ecosystem in a body of water |
| Food chains | the path of food organism to another in an ecosystem |
| Food webs | overlapping food chains with different Pathways for the flow of food energy in an ecosystem |
| Energy pyramid | a diagram that shows the amount of energy passed on at each level of a food chain |
| Competiton | the struggle of organisms against each other to get the same resource |
| Natural resoures | materials in the environment that useful to people |
| population | all the organisms of the same species that love in the same place at the same time |
| Community | populations of different kinds of organisms that live in the same place at the same time |
| Habitat | he environment where an organism live |
| Estuary | a place where freshwater from a river empties into the ocean and mixes with it |
| Brackish | slightly salty as is the mixture of a river water and the sea water in the estuaries |