Ecosystem 100
It is the path of energy as it flows from one living thing to the next with an arrow
Food chain
it is a pyramid showing the amount of energy left for consumers as the energy moves through a food web.
Energy Pyramid
An organism that makes its own food using energy from the sun
Producer
animals that hunt other animals for food
Predator
Describes how nutrients move from the physical environment into living organisms and are recycled back into the physical environment.
Nutrient Cycle
Several food chains connected together.
a Food Web
The position that an organism has in a food chain.
Trophic Levels
An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms
Consumer
Animals that are hunted.
Prey
this describes how nitrogen moves between plants, animals, bacteria, the air, and soil in the ground.
Nitrogen Cycle
A group of living things that interact in an ecosystem
Community
What is the tropic level after producer?
Primary Consumer
An organism that breaks down dead organisms
Decomposers
Interaction
A particular way in which things affect one another.
The path that carbon travels through an ecosystem to sustain life on Earth.
Carbon Cycle
A group of one or more species living in a certain habitat.
Population
The third level in a food chain. A consumer who eats the secondary consumer.
Tertiary Consumer
Biotic
The living parts of an ecosystem.
The study of the relationship between plants, animals, and their environment.
Ecology
The part that a plant or animal plays in an ecosystem.
Niche
A individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
Organism
The second level in a food chain. A consumer who eats the primary consumer.
Secondary Consumer
Abiotic
The non-living parts of an ecosystem.
The place in which a plant or animal lives.
Habitat
Something that represents a real object, event, or process.
Model