Energy
Energy is transferred in food chains and food webs.
What is Energy Flow?
Community of living organisms interacting with their environment and other organisms.
What is a Pioneer Species?
What is Photosynthesis?
Average weather conditions of an area over many years.
What is Climate?
`Natural, gradual changes in the types of species in an area.
What is Succession?
A close relationship in which at least one organism benefits.
What is Symbiosis?
Large geographic areas with similar climates and ecosystems. (Ex. Tundra, Taiga, Tropical Rain forest)
What is a Biome?
Stable, end stage of ecological succession in which balance is in the absence of disturbance.
What is Climax Community?
Organism that cannot produce its own energy and gets it by eating other organisms.
What is a Consumer?
Diverse ecosystem made form the calcium carbonate shells secreted by corals.
What is a Coral Reef?
Growing or living in water.
What is Aquatic?
A symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit.
What is Mutualism?
Largest number of individuals of a species that an Ecosystem can support over time.
What is Carrying Capacity?
All the populations of different species that live in an ecosystem.
What is a Community?