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Energy flow and balance in the ecosystem (Mitchell G)

Chapter 18 Vocabulary

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producera living thing containing chlorophyll
herbivorean animal that eats only plants or plant materials
consumera living thing that eats other living things
carnivorean animal that eats only other living things
omnivorean animal that eats both plants and animals
decomposera living thing that feeds off dead materials
food chainthe arraigment of living things in an order in whicheach uses the next as a source of food
aphidslittle insects on tree leaves get eaten by flying insects
energy flowwhen the energy flows from one living thing to an other
food weba combination of the food chains in an ecosystem
food pyrimida pyrimid to show how the amount of food changes
carrying capcitythe maximum number of living things that a given can support without danger to survivalof living things
limiting factora factor that controls the number of living things that can ecosystem can support
cyclethe movement of resourses in an ecosystem that results in materials being used again and again
receiving energyreceive energy by eating the stored food in plants and other organisms
water cyclea continuos prosses:the evaperation of water, condensation of water, and precipitation of water
evaperationis the key from this cycle, the water evaperates from soil and plants
using energywhen the plants make food, most of it is used by plants
cyclesall the food chains that are found in a community would look more like a webthan a food chain
amount of foodthe differences in the sizes of population are due to the amount of food energy availibleto each population


Mrs. Stephan

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