Chapter 4 Vocabulary Review

Match the following

• the place where an organism usually lives

• Habitat

• A community of organisms and their abiotic environment

• Biodiversity

• a group of various species that live in the same habitat and interact with each other

• Succession

• the replacement of one type of community by another at a single location over a period of time.

• Ecosystem

• the variety of organisms in a given area, the genetic variation within a population, etc.

• Community

Match the following

• an organism that can make organic molecules from inorganic molecules

• Climate

• large region characterized by a specific type of climate and certain types of plant/animal community

• Decomposer

• the average weather conditions in an area over a long

  period of time

• Producer

• an organism that feeds by breaking down organic matter from dead organisms

• Biome

• an organism that eats other organisms instead of producing its own nutrients

• Consumer

Match the following

• the movement of carbon from the nonliving environment into living things and back

• Energy pyramid

• triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem's loss of energy, which results as energy passes through

• Carbon cycle

• one of the steps in a food chain or food pyramid

• Trophic level

Match the following

• cyclic movement of

  phosphorus in different chemical forms from the environment to organisms and back

• Phosphorus cycle

• the exchange of

  oxygen and carbon dioxide between living cells and their

  environment

• Respiration

• the cycling of nitrogen

  between organisms, soil, water, and the atmosphere

• Nitrogen cycle