Unit 1 Vocabulary

Biome

• Evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant
• A group of ecosystems that share similar climates and typical organisms
• The change of state from a gas to a liquid
• The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back

Ecosystem

• A group of ecosystems that share similar climates and typical organisms
• Non-living things
• 3rd layer of the atmosphere
• A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

Population

• living things
• The process by which cells break down simple food molecules to release the energy they contain.
• The change of state from a gas to a liquid
• A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area

Community

• The change of state from a gas to a liquid
• the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface.
• A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other
• the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.

Habitat

• Ar
• the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
• Non-living things
• 3rd layer of the atmosphere

Niche

• An organism's particular role in an ecosystem, or how it makes its living.
• the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface.
• Evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant
• water in the form of a gas

Biotic

• The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
• Most abundant gas in the atmosphere
• An organism that can make its own food.
• living things

Abiotic

• A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
• Non-living things
• An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
• The change of state from a gas to a liquid

Photosynthesis

• Ar
• 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
• the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface.
• The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back

Respiration

• a colorless, odorless gas produced by burning carbon and organic compounds and by respiration. Is absorbed by plants in photosynthesis.
• An organism's particular role in an ecosystem, or how it makes its living.
• the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
• The process by which cells break down simple food molecules to release the energy they contain.