VOCAB 1
A condition or resource that restricts the growth, reproduction, or distribution of a population in an ecosystem.
What is Limiting Factor?
2x points
A community of living organisms interacting with their physical environment, including both biotic and abiotic factors.
What is Ecosystem?
3x points
The amount of mass in a given volume; in ecology, it refers to the number of individuals of a species in a specific area.
What is Density?
The natural environment where an organism lives and gets its needs met, such as food, water, and shelter.
What is Habitat?
2x points
A living thing, such as a plant, animal, fungus, or microorganism.
What is Organism?
The process by which water vapor in the air cools and changes into liquid droplets, forming clouds or dew.
What is Condensation?
3x points
Water that falls from the atmosphere to Earth’s surface in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is Precipitation?
A living or once-living component of an ecosystem, including plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria.
What is Biotic Factor?
In a Foodweb the arrow's significance.
What is the direction Energy moves?
4 x points
A complex network of interconnected food chains that show the feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
What is Food Web?
2x points
A non-living part of an ecosystem that affects living organisms, such as sunlight, temperature, water, and soil.
What is Abiotic Factor?
3x points
The process by which liquid water changes into water vapor due to heat energy from the sun.
What is Evaporation?
An organism, such as bacteria or fungi, that breaks down dead organisms and organic waste, returning nutrients to the ecosystem.
What is Decomposer?
2x points
A group of organisms of the same species that live in the same area at the same time.
What Is Population?
2x points
An organism that obtains energy by eating other organisms, classified as herbivores, carnivores, or omnivores.
What is Consumer?
A linear sequence of organisms in which each organism eats the one below it and is eaten by the one above it, showing the flow of energy.
What is Food Chain?
A diagram that shows the flow of energy through different trophic levels in an ecosystem, with producers at the base and consumers above.
What is Energy Pyramid?
All the different populations of organisms living and interacting in a specific area.
What is Community?
The function or job an organism has in an ecosystem, often referred to as its niche.
What is Role?
An organism, usually a plant or algae, that produces its own food through photosynthesis and serves as the base of a food chain.
What is Producer?
The materials and conditions an organism needs to survive, including food, water, shelter, and space.
What is Resource?
A set of interacting parts that work together, such as an ecosystem, which consists of living and non-living components.
What is System?
A scientific principle stating that matter cannot be created or destroyed in a chemical reaction, only rearranged.
What is The Law of Conservation of Mass
The parts or elements that make up a whole, such as the living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) parts of an ecosystem.
What is Components?
A scientific principle stating that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred or transformed from one form to another.
What is The Law of Consevation of Energy?