Vocabulary
The place where a population lives
An interconnected web of food chains
What is a food web?
This is a part of the biosphere that has a specific climate and community
What is a biome?
An organism that eats other animals
What are carnivores?
An animal that's a detrivore is a __________.
What is a vulture?
Non-living factors that can affect an ecosystem
What is abiotic?
An animal that eats plants (or other producers)
What is an herbivore?
These are plants or mosses that first grow in a newly formed ecosystem
What are pioneer species?
A diagram in which each tropic level is represented by a block of space proportional to the amount of energy stored within that trophic level
What is an energy pyramid?
This is a type of decomposer that we studied at the beginning of the school year.
What is a red wiggler?
The study of interactions among living things and the environment
What is ecology?
An organism that obtains energy from wastes and dead bodies
What is a detrivore?
Succession that occurs where no soil has existed (no previous growth) is known as...
What is primary succession?
The variety and genetic differences of living things found within an ecosystem represents the ecosystem's ... (Hint: We watched a Bill Nye video about this.)
What is biodiversity?
Organisms that obtain ENERGY by eating plants or animals
What are consumers?
Primary and secondary replacement of species over time
What is succession?
Path of energy flow through the trophic levels
What is a food chain?
All the different species that live together in an ecosystem are know as this
What is a community?
The portion of the planet where life exists
What is the biosphere?
The tundra, desert, and rainforest are examples of these.
What is a biome?
Living factors found within an ecosystem
What are biotic factors?
An organism that is both an herbivore and a carnivore
What are omnivores?
The study of living things and their interaction with each other and the environment is known as this
What is ecology?
A vulture is an example of this
What is a detrivore?
The dry weight of organic matter
What is biomass?