Ecology Vocabulary Practice

carbon cycle

• process of converting nitrogen gas into nitrogen compounds that plants can absorb and use
• The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.
• the series of processes by which carbon compounds are interconverted in the environment, chiefly involving the incorporation of carbon dioxide into living tissue by photosynthesis and its return to the atmosphere through respiration, the decay of dead organisms, and the burning of fossil fuels.
• A consumer that eats only plants.

nitrogen cycle

• A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web
• the series of processes by which nitrogen and its compounds are interconverted in the environment and in living organisms, including nitrogen fixation and decomposition.
• an organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide.
• A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

water cycle

• A relationship between two organisms of different species where one benefits and the other is harmed
• An increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes)
• The continual movement of water among Earth's atmosphere, oceans, and land surface through evaporation, condensation, and precipitation
• A consumer that eats only plants.

Photosynthesis

• A process through which you send messages to and receive messages from others.
• process of converting nitrogen gas into nitrogen compounds that plants can absorb and use
• process by which plants and some other organisms use light energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and high-energy carbohydrates such as sugars and starches
• Growing almost exponentially for centuries and birth rate is higher than death rate in most countries

cellular respiration

• Growing almost exponentially for centuries and birth rate is higher than death rate in most countries
• The average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time
• Process that releases energy by breaking down glucose and other food molecules in the presence of oxygen
• A process through which you send messages to and receive messages from others.

nitrogen fixation

• An increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes)
• process of converting nitrogen gas into nitrogen compounds that plants can absorb and use
• A consumer that eats only plants.
• warming that results when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere

greenhouse effect

• process of converting nitrogen gas into nitrogen compounds that plants can absorb and use
• The effect of humans on an ecosystem
• mechanism of population control in which a population is regulated by predation
• warming that results when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere

climate

• The average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time
• Chemical signals released by an animal that communicate information and affect the behavior of other animals of the same species.
• close interaction between species in which one species lives in or on the other
• process by which plants and some other organisms use light energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and high-energy carbohydrates such as sugars and starches

Ecosystem

• The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.
• An animal that eats both plants and animals
• An increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes)
• A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

energy pyramid

• The effect of humans on an ecosystem
• A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web
• the series of processes by which nitrogen and its compounds are interconverted in the environment and in living organisms, including nitrogen fixation and decomposition.
• A consumer that eats only plants.