Quizlet Vocabulary - Photosynthesis and Ecology Science Voca

Food making process of green plants: carbon dioxide and water are combined with energy fromthe sun to produce glucose (with oxygen left over).

• Photosynthesis

• Secondary Succession

• heterotroph

• Energy Pyramid

Living parts of the ecosystem and the organic matter they produce: predators, prey, plants, wastes

• biotic factor

• Transpiration

• Secondary Succession

• Predation

predictable, orderly stages an ecosystem goes through as it grows, starting with lichen colonizing bare rock.

• Primary succession

• heterotroph

• ominivore

• stimulus

Organism that is able to make its own food through photosynthesis, "primary producer", plant; opposite "heterotroph"

• autotroph

• response

• population

• 10% rule

organism that lives on decaying organic material from which it obtains energy and nutrients. Causes rot. Examples are fungi, bacteria, insects and worms

• decomoposer

• ecosystem

• energy pyramid

• photosynthesis

the ultimate source of energy in ecosystems, provides radiant energy that plants change into chemimcal energy.

• sun

• tropic level

• pioneer species

• secondary succssion

water loss by plants through evaporation through the water cycle.

• transpiration

• food web

• biodiversity

• ecology

Total number of different species in an ecosystem. Bio means life. Diversity means different.

• Biodiversity

• biosphere

• energy flow

• ecology

Study of the relationship between living organisms and their environment

• ecology

• community

• biome

• omnivore

level of an organism or its position in the food chaing or energy pyramid based on what it eats and what eats it.

• trophic level

• response

• Primary consumer

• sun