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