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Ms.Robins EMS
Term | Definition |
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producers | an organism that makes its own food; an organism that does not consume other plants or animal |
consumers | an organism that eats other living things to get energy; an organism that does not produce its own food |
decomposer | organisms which carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms |
biotic | all of the living parts of an ecosystem |
abiotic | Abiotic components are the non-living factors in an environment |
ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other |
biomes | a large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat |
food web | a model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things |
food chain | a model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things |
photosynthesis | the process in which plants and some other organisms use the energy in sunlight to make food |
cellular | relating to or consisting of living cells |
respiration | the process of taking in oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide from the body; also the process in which cells use oxygen to get energy from food |
carbon cycle | a natural cycle in which carbon compounds, mainly carbon dioxide, are incorporated into living tissue through photosynthesis and returned to the atmosphere by respiration, decay of dead organisms, and the burning of fossil fuels |
oxygen cycle | The oxygen cycle is the biogeochemical cycle of oxygen within its three main reservoirs: the atmosphere (air), the total content of biological matter within the biosphere |
transpiration | the process in plants by which water is taken up by the roots and released as water vapor through stomata in the leaves |
energy pyramid | a model that shows the available amount of energy in each trophic layer in an ecosystem |
giocoso | a carbohydrate; produced by photosynthesis; primary source of energy for some plant and animal cells |