Ch 5 Vocabulary Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Carbon Cycle | Where carbon goes through atmosphere, land, water, and organisms |
Cellular Respiration | The breaking down of food to yield energy |
Climax Community | A community that is stable |
Consumer | Gets energy by eating other organisms |
Decomposer | Get food by breaking down dead organisms |
Ecological Succession | Gradual change of species in an environment |
Food Chain | Energy is transferred from one organism to another |
Food Web | Shows feeding relationships in an ecosystem |
Nitrogen Cycle | Nitrogen gets cycled through the atmosphere, bacteria, etc. |
Nitrogen Fixation | When bacteria can fix atmospheric nitrogen into chemical compounds |
Phosphorous Cycle | The movement of phosphorus from the environment to an organism back to the environment |
Photosynthesis | Plants using sunlight to make their own food |
Pioneer Species | First organisms to colonize in a new area |
Primary Succession | An area where no ecosystem has been before |
Producer | Organism that makes its own food |
Secondary Succession | Where an ecosystem already was then another came and thrived in that area |
Tropic Level | The levels in the Food we and the Food Chain |
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