bio word list

Food Chain: A sequence that links species by their feeding relationships.
Herbivores: Organisms that only eat plants.
Carnivores: Organisms that only eat animals.
Omnivores: Organisms that eat both plants and animals.
Detritivores: Organisms that eat detritus, or dead organic matter.
Specialist: A consumer that primary eats one specific organism.
Generalist: Consumer that has varying diet.
Trophic levels: The levels of nourishment in a food chain.
Food Web: Shows the network of feeding relationships between trophic levels within an ecosystem.
Food Chain: Shows one path of energy flow through an ecosystem
Hydrologic Cycle: The water cycle.
Biogeochemical Cycle: The movement of particular chemical through the biological and geological parts of an ecosystem.
Nitrogen Fixation: Process when certain types of bacteria convert gaseous nitrogen into ammonia.
Biomass: A measure of the total dry mass of organisms in a given area.
Energy Pyramid: A diagram that compares energy used by producers.
Ecological Pyramids: Diagram that shows the relative amount of energy or matter within each trophic level of a food chain or web.
Habitat: Can be described as all of the biotic and abiotic factors in the area where an organism lives.
Ecological niche: Composed of all the physical, chemical, and biological factors that a species needs to survive.
Competitive exclusion: States that when two species are competing for the same resources, one species will be better suited to the nature.
Ecological Equivalent: Species that occupy similar niches but live in different geographical regions.
Competition: Occurs when two organisms fight for the same limited resources.
Predation: The process by which one organism captures and feeds upon another organism.
Symbiosis: A close ecological relationship between two or more organisms of different species that live in direct contact with one another.
Mutualism: An interspecies interaction in which both organisms benefit from one