Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
18 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Breaks down and obtains enegy from dead organic matter
|
decomposers
|
|
|
Obtains energy from the food it consumes
|
Concumer
|
|
|
Use sun for energy
|
Plankton
|
|
|
All of the organisms about the third trophic level, eats animals.
|
Carnivors
|
|
|
Relies on onther organisms for its energy and food supply
|
Heterotrophs
|
|
|
Can produce food
|
Autotrophs
|
|
|
Obtains energy by eating both plants and animals
|
Omnivore
|
|
|
Group of organisms whore energy souce is the same number of steps away from the sun.
|
Trophic Level
|
|
|
Study of how organisms fit into their enviornment.
|
Ecology.
|
|
|
The organisms that live in a particular place
|
Community
|
|
|
Organisms in second trphic level, obtains energy by eating only plants.
|
Herbnivore
|
|
|
Major biological communities that occure over wide areas on land
|
Biomes
|
|
|
Ability of gases to retain heat, and in doing so warming the eaths atmosphere.
|
Green house effect
|
|
|
Contain photosynthetic organisms that are the bae of aquatic food webs.
|
Producer
|
|
|
Collection of organisms and their physical environment.
|
Ecosystem
|
|
|
Physical location of a community
|
Habitat
|
|
|
Measure of hte number of species living in a habitat.
|
Diversity.
|
|
|
Process of conveting nitrogen gas into ammonia
|
Nitrogen Fixation
|
