Biology Module #10 Ecology
This is the vocabulary for Exploring Creation with Biology Module 10
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- Biome
- A group of ecosystems classified by climate and plant life
- Ecology
- The study of interactions between living and nonliving things
- Primary Consumer
- An organism that eats producers
- Greenhouse Effect
- The process by which certain gases (principally water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane) trap heat that would otherwise escape the earth and radiate into space
- Community
- A group of Populations living and interacting in the same area
- Ecological Pyramid
- A diagram that shows the biomass of organisms at each trophic level
- Population
- A group of interbreeding organisms coexisting together
- Secondary Consumer
- An organism that eats primary consumers
- Biomass
- A measure of the total dry mass of organisms within a particular region
- Tertiary Consumer
- An organism that eats secondary consumers
- Watershed
- An ecosystem where all water runoff drains into a single body of water
- Transpiration
- Evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant
- Ecosystem
- An association of living organisms and their physical environment