Ecosystems Vocabulary
A nonliving part of an ecosystem.
What is abiotic factor?
The predictable progression of organisms that come to inhabit a newly developed area or one developed after a natural disaster`
What is ecological succession?
Any of the plants and algae that produce oxygen and food that animals need.
What is producer or autotroph?
An animal that eats plants, algae, and other producers.
What is herbivore?
The biome that describes New York State
What is deciduous forest?
All the living and non-living things in an environment, including their interactions with each other.
What is Ecosystems?
This cycle is necessary to provide organisms with the material to make DNA; thought air is 79% made up of this element, we cannot absorb it through our skin.
What is the nitrogen cycle?
The path of the energy in food from one organism to another.
An animal that eats another animal.
What is carnivore?
A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.
What is energy pyramid?
A living part of an ecosystem.
What is biotic factor?
Evaporation, condensation and transpiration are all parts of this cycling of matter on Earth.
What is the water cycle?
A diagram or map showing the flow of energy between various organisms; most organisms have more than one arrow drawn from itself to a predator
What is a Food Web?
An animal that eats both plants and animals.
What is omnivore?
The breakdown and decay of organic matter and dead organisms that returns carbon to the ground
All the members of one species in an area.
What is population?
The dependence of every organism and its connections with other living and nonliving parst of its environment.
What is interdependence?
Any animal that eats plants or eats other plant-eating animals.
What is consumer or heterotroph?
An animal that hunts other animals for food.
What is predator?
When an ecosystem is struck by a natural disaster but some soil remains, allowing the ecosystem to grow back faster, this is called ______ succession.
All the living things in an ecosystem.
What is community?
In ecological succession, the point at which the ecosystem is at its most stable at diverse.
What is a climax community?
This type of organism is a heterotroph that can digest organisms that are already dead.
What is a scavenger?
A living thing that is hunted for food.
What is prey?
In a forest ecosystem, the leaves on the ground are often eaten by insects. Toads love to eat these insects, but they also have to look out for themselves because skunks love to eat a good toad! Foxes like to eat skunks. The producer in this food chain is ____
What are the leaves?