Vocabulary

Photosynthesis : process by which plants used to create food by the sun's energy.

Solar energy : energy that comes from the sun.

Environment : all the living and nonliving things that surround an organism.

Biomass : a measure of the amount of living things in an Environment.

Foodchain : the path that energy takes from one organism to another in the form of food.

Producer : an organism that makes it's own food.

Consumer : in organism that eats other organisms.

Decomposer : an organism that breaks down other organisms.

Herbivore : an animal that eats mainly plants.

Carnivore : an animal that eats other animals.

Omnivore : an animal that eats both plants and animals.

Food web : the food chain that links together in an.

Competition : the struggle among living things for the same resources.

Population : all the members of a single type of living thing and then environment.

Energy Pyramid : a diagram that shows the amount of energy at each level of the food web and then ecosystem.

Microorganism : living things that are too small to be seen with our eyes

Bacteria : microorganisms that have cell membranes but no nuclei.

Protist : a microorganism that lives in water.

Fungi : a plant like organism that breaks down dead or dying plants.

Ecosystem : all be living in nonliving things that interact and then environment.

Biotic factor : a living part of the ecosystem.

Abiotic factors : a nonliving part of the ecosystem.

Pollination : flowering plants reproduce when female cells are transported to female sales in a flower.

Seed dispersal : the process of spreading seeds that allow plants to reproduce.

Accommodation : an individual organism's response to a change in the ecosystem.

Endangered : close to extinction.

Extinct : all dead ; no more left on earth.

Adaptation : a special trait that helps an organism survive in its environment.

Camouflage : an adaptation that allows an animal to blend into it surroundings.

Mimicry when one organism imitates the traits of another.

Genetics the study of how organisms pass along treats over periods of time.