Ecology Vocab CP

Plants and animals that have migrated to places where they are not native

• Invasive species

• Ecosystem

• Conservation

• Predation

A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten

• Groundwater

• Heterotroph

• Food Chain

• Biosphere

An organism that obtains energy from the foods it consumes; also called a consumer

• Run-off

• Individual

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

Water that flows over the ground surface rather than soaking into the ground

• run-off

• infiltration

• biomass

• groundwater

Water that fills the cracks and speaces in underground soil and rock layers

• groundwater

• transpiration

• biosphere

• precipitation

The total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level

• biosphere

• biomass

• niche

• food web

A network of interlocking and interdependent food chains

• Food web

• Energy triangle

• Population

• Energy

The state of change from a liquid to a gas. In the water cycle it forms clouds

• condensation

• rainwater

• producers

• infiltration

A specie's role in an ecosystem

• niche

• population

• community

• producers

The ability to do work. Often measured in calories or kcal.

• population

• energy

• biomass

• water