Chapter 5 - How Ecosystems Work- p. 142- Gaby Montoya
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| Photosynthesis | energy from the sun enters an ecosystem whena plant uses sunlight to make sugar molecules.
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| Producers | is an organism that makes its own food.
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| Consumers | organisms that get their energy by eating other organism.
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| Decompsers | Some consumers get their food by breaking down dead organisms.
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| Cellular Respiration | Process of breaking down food to yeild energy.
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| Food Chain | A sequence in which energy is transfered from an organism to the next as each organism each organism eats anothers.
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| Trophic Level | One of the teps in a food chain or food pyramid.
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| Carbon Cycle | The movement of carbon from the nonliving enviroment into livingsthings and back.
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| Nitrogen-fixing bacteria | bacteria that convert atmospheric nitrogeninto ammonia.
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| Nitrogen Cycle | a process in which nirogen is cycled between the atmosphere, bacteria, and other organisms
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| Phosphorus Cycle | is the movement of phosphorus from the environment to organisms and then back to the environment
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| Ecological Succession | is a gradual process of change and replacement of some or all of the species in a community.
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| Primary Succession | is the type of succession that occurs on a surface where no ecoysystem existed before, such as rocks or sand dunes
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| Secondary Succession | the more common type of succession, occurs on a surface where an ecoysystem has previously existed.
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| Pioneer Species | the first organisms to colonize any newly available area and begin the process of ecological succession
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| Climax Community | is a fial and stable community
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