Living Things
Living things in an ecosystem
Biotic Factors
similar to positions in sports
role
matter cannot enter or exit
closed system
animal that only eats plants
Herbivore
things organisms need to live, grow, and reproduce
resources
Organism that can make its own food
producer
Plants, soil, air, rocks, water, microorganisms, and animals in a terrarium
components
animal that only eats meat
carnivore
an environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
Habitat
Obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Consumer
the process by which molecules at the surface of liquid water absorb enough energy to change to a gas
Evaporation
animal that eats meat and plants
omnivore
nonliving parts of an ecosystem
abiotic factors
Breaks down biotic wastes and dead organisms, returning the raw materials to the ecosystem
Decomposers
The process of a gas changing to a liquid
levels of organization
organism, population, community, ecosystem
Causes a population to stop growing or to decrease in size
limiting factor
Many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
food web
Condensing water vapor collects as cloud, as the drops grow larger, they fall in the form of
precipitation
main source of energy for all food chains
the sun