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Science vocabulary
Ecosystem Amanda A
Question | Answer |
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abiotic | nonliving thing in an enviroment such as soil ,water,rock,air,light,wind,and mineral |
biome | a large geographic area that thas similar climate, and climax communities. |
biosphere | all area of the earth where life exits including air,land,and water. |
biotic | living thing in an enviroment such as plant ,and animal. |
canivorean | an animal that eat other aminal. |
carring capacity | the number of amimal that can obtain food ,and shelter from the environment in a given area the abilty of an environment to support it animals. |
climaxcomminity | a stable community with a balance of abotic and biotic factors. |
consumer | organism that can not make their own food. |
decomposer | microbe that causes the decay or breakdown of dead plant and animal. |
ecology | the study of releshionship between organism and their enviroment. |
ecosystem | a community interacting with nonliving parts of it enviroment. |
energy pyramid | a model of the flow of energy in a food chain;less energy is avaliable at each level of the pyramid as you move toward the top. |
environmental management | conserving resources and protecting ecosystem by carfully managing their use |
food chain | the feeding relationship that transfer energy through a community .start with a producer and moves through herbivors to carnivores. |
food web | a series of overlapping food chains |
habitant | the place where an organism lives within a comminity |
herbivores | an animal that just plant |
omoniviores | an animal that eats both plant and animal |
photosynthensis | food making process that takes place in the chloroplast of plant cells where light energy is used to produce glucose and oxygen from carbon dioxide and water |
population of destiny | the number of individual per unit of living spaces |
population | organisms of one spieces living inthe same place at the same time |
predator r | an organism that kills and eat preys to obtain energy |
producer | green plant that makes their own food through photosynthesis |
scavenger | an animal thatfeeds on dead animal example vulture |
ecosystem vocabulary |