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| The study of organisms and how the interact with other organisms and their physical environment |
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| Is a particular area where there are living things (biotic) and non living (abiotic) features such as weather and they have an affect on eachother |
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| Make their own food from sunlight or organic molecules. They are also known as autotrophs. An example of this would be a plant such as a tulip. They are at the bottom of the food chain. |
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A consumer also known as a heterotroph is an organism which gets it's energy from eating other organisms such as plants, animals or insects.
Example would be omnivore, carnivore, herbivore, detrivore |
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Gets it's energy from feeding off dead organic matter. They complete the flow of energy.
Example Bacteria or Fungi |
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| Study of all living things within an ecoystem. Needs to be made of atleast one cell. |
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Non living things in an ecosystem such as weather and soil.
How it affects the physical environment and the living organisms |
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| All the living things in the world found in water, on land, in the atmosphere or air |
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| Group of individuals that are very simliar they can reproduce together |
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| Group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area |
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| A collection of different populations which all live in the same area |
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| Is a defined area where communities live together with their non living environment |
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| Is a group of similiar ecosystems found around the world with similiar climate and species |
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| Series of steps which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten |
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| Links all food chains in an ecosystem together |
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| Each step in a food chain or web and each consumer depends on the trophic level below for energy following the 10% rule |
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A diagram which shows the amount of energy or matter contained on each trophic level
Examples: energy, biomass and pyramid of numbers |
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| Biological Community of plants and animals through the process of ecological succession has reached a steady rate |
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| An area with a high density of trees |
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| An area where two ecosystems overlap which allows for more diveristy among plants and animals |
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| Variation among organisms in the biosphere |
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| Contains trees in varying ages, species and heights. Going through a cycle of life and decay. Lots of large standing dead trees. |
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| Feeding and housing others and always in some stage of decomposition |
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| Standing dead tree that has been identified as endangered habitat. A kind of wildlife tree |
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| Like a nursery they help to nurish new trees by allowing them to grow up and out. There are more living matter than those trees still standing |
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Central to the food web of an ecosystem
i.e. Mycorrhyziae |
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| Constantly changing in response to natural and human disturbances. Series of predictable changes in a community over time. |
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| Takes place on surfaces where soil never existed |
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| After a disturbance takes place such as forest fire or logging community interactions tend to restore the ecosystem to it's original state |
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| A wetland habitat made of plants that can live in acidic and low nutrient soil. Sphagnum moss is the keystone species. |
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Bog Rosemary
Labrador Tea
Bog Laurel
Bog Cranberry
Bog Blueberry
Cloudberry |
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| The process which organisms exchange gases |
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| Water evaporating from leaves of plants after being absorbed through their roots |
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| Process by which water changes from liquid form to an atmospheric gas |
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| All the chemical substances which an organism needs to sustain life |
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| Some soil bacteria converts nitrates into nitrogen gas |
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| SOme bacteria which live on roots of legumes, convert nitrogen gas into ammonia in this process |
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In all DNA molecules
Found in bones and teeth |
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| Key Ingredient of living tissue |
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| Total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level |
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| Shows relative number of individual organisms at each trophic level |
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