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Science Vocab CH3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ecology | Study Of The Interactions Between Organisms And Their Enviroment |
| Autotrophs | Organisms That Use Sunlight Or Energy To Make Food |
| Producers | Organisms That Make Their Own Food |
| Photosynthesis | Process Used To Make Food Energy From The Sun |
| Chemosynthesis | Autotrophs That Capture Chemical Energy Since They LIve In Places Without Sunlight |
| Decomposers | Break Down Waste And Organic Matter And Return Them To The Ecosystem |
| Herbivore | Eats Only Plants |
| Carnivore | Eats Only Animals |
| Omnivore | Eats Both Plants And Animals |
| Consumers | Can't Make Their Own Food At All |
| Food Chains | Show How Matter And Energy Move Through The Ecosystem In A Series Of Steps Showing Which Organisms Transfer Engery By Eating And Being Eaten |
| Food Web | Models That Show All Possible Feeding Relationships At Each Trophic Level In A Community Links all Food Chains In An Ecosystem Together |
| Biogeochemical Cycles | Elements Compounds And Other Forms Of Matter Are Passed On From One Organism To Another And From One Part Of The Biosphere To Another Connect Biological, Geological & Chemical Aspects |
| Water Cycle | Shows That Water Is Constantly Moving Between The Atmosphere And Earth |
| Biotic Factors | All Luving Or Once Living Things In An Enviroment |
| Abiotic Factors | All Non Living Parts Of The Enviroment |
| Habitat | An Area Where An Organism Lives Including Both Biotic And Abiotic Factors |
| Niche | All Strategies And Adaptations A Species Uses In It's Enviroment |
| Symbiosis | An Area Where An Two Species Live Closely Together |
| Predators | Organisms That Seek Out And Eat Other Organisms |
| Prey | Organisms That Are Eaten |
| Mutualism | Both Species Benefit From Relationship |
| Commensalism | One Organism Benefits And The Other Is Neither Helped Nor Harmed |
| Parasitism | One Organism Lives On Or In Organisms That Harms It |
| Limiting Factor | Anything That Limits An Organism's Ability To Live In A Particular Enviroment |
| Tolerance | The Ability Of Living Things To Survive The Changes In Their Environments |
| Succession | The Process Of Gradual, Natural, Change, And Species Replacement That Takes Place In The Communities Of An Ecosystem Over Time |
| Biome | Large Group Of Ecosystems That Share The Same Type Of Climax Community |
| Aquatic Biome | Biomes Located In Bodies Of Water |
| Terrestrial Biome | Biomes Located On Land |
| Tundra | Coldest Biome Permanent Frozen |
| Taiga | Pine Trees, Long And Cold Winters |
| Desert | Hot Dry Rocky Soil |
| Savannah | Warm And Limited Rain Open Grasslands |
| Temperate Forest | Warm Summers Cold Winters Fertile Soil Leafy Trees |
| Tropical Rainforest | Hot Plentiful Rain Abundance Of Plant And Animal Species |
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