Question | Answer |
Community | a group of various species that live in the same place and interact with one another |
Ecosystem | a community of organisms and their abiotic environment |
Habitat | the place where an organism usually lives |
Biodiversity | the variety of organisms in a given area, the genetic variation with a population, the variety of species in a community, or the variety of communities in an ecosystem |
Succession | the replacement of one type of community by another at a single location over a period of time |
Climate | the average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time |
Biome | a large region characterized by a specific type of climate types of plant and animal communities |
Producer | the basic food source for an ecosystem |
Consumer | organisms that eat other organisms instead of producing their own food |
Decomposers | organisms that break down the remains of animals |
Trophic level | each step in the transfer of the energy through an ecosystem |
Energy pyramid | a triangular diagram that results energy passes through the ecosystem's food chain |
Carbon cycle | the movement of carbon from the nonliving environment into living things and back |
Respiration | the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between living cells and their environment |
Nitrogen cycle | the process in which nitrogen between organisms in an ecosystem |
Phosphorus cycle | the movement of phosphorus in different chemical forms form the surroundings to organisms and then back to the surroundings. |
Carbon cycle | the movement of carbon from the nonliving environment into the living things and back |
Respiration | the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between living cells and their environment |
Nitrogen cycle | the process in which nitrogen between organisms in an ecosystem |
Phosphorus cycle | the movement of phosphorus in different chemical forms form the surroundings to organisms and them back to the surroundings |