Ecology Check-Up 4.1+4.4, 3.1-3.3 General Ecology/Food Webs

A large area that has a specific type of climate and certain types of plant and animal communities 

• ecosystem
• habitat
• niche
• biome

Step in the food chain, food web, or ecological pyramid

• trophic level

• abiotic factors

• community

• ecosystem

Study of interactions between organisms and their environment 

• niche
• community 
• ecology
• ecosystem

Non-living factor that affects an ecosystem

• biotic factor
• abiotic factor
• food chain 
• biome

Consumer that eats plants

• heterotroph
• herbivore
• producer
• community

Populations of different organisms living in a defined area

• species
• community
• niche
• biome

All the organisms in a particular location, including their nonliving environment

• ecosystem
• carnivore
• niche
• population

Organisms that breaks down and absorbs nutrients from dead organisms 

• consumer
• trophic level
• decomposer
• species

diagram that shows the energy available to each trophic level in an ecosystem; 10% is passed on to upper levels, the rest is lost as heat

• succession 
• cellular respiration
• energy pyramid
• biochemical cycle

four distinct seasons; trees that lose their leaves in the fall

• tundra
• taiga
• temperate deciduous forest
• temperate woodlands