front 1 a model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things | back 1 food chain |
front 2 the original source of all Earth's energy | back 2 sun |
front 3 a model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things | back 3 food web |
front 4 the transfer of energy from one organism to another through a food chain or web | back 4 energy flow |
front 5 a model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things in water | back 5 aquatic food chain |
front 6 a model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things on land | back 6 terrestrial food chain |
front 7 a model that shows the available amount of energy in each trophic layer in an ecosystem | back 7 energy pyramid |
front 8 a process in which nitrogen in the atmosphere enters the soil and becomes part of living organisms then eventually returns to the atmosphere | back 8 nitrogen cycle |
front 9 a natural cycle in which mainly carbon dioxide is incorporated into living tissue through photosynthesis and returned to the atmosphere by respiration, decay of dead organisms, and the burning of fossil fuels | back 9 carbon cycle |
front 10 a waste product made by cells of the body; a gas in the air made of carbon and oxygen atoms | back 10 carbon dioxide |
front 11 any organism that can create its own food from inorganic materials | back 11 autotroph |
front 12 an organism that cannot create its own energy and must instead rely on consuming nutrients from other organisms | back 12 heterotroph |
front 13 the position an organism occupies at each level of the food chain | back 13 trophic level |
front 14 an organism that makes its own food; an organism that does not consume other plants or animals | back 14 producer |
front 15 an organism that eats other living things to get energy; an organism that does not produce its own food | back 15 consumer |
front 16 an animal that consumes only plants | back 16 herbivore |
front 17 an animal that eats only other animals | back 17 carnivore |
front 18 an animal that eats plants as well as other animals | back 18 omnivore |
front 19 a non-mutual relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is harmed | back 19 parasitism |
front 20 a relationship in which one species lives off the other and both organisms benefit | back 20 mutualism |