Biology - Living Organisms and their enviroments

Producer

Organism that makes it is own nutrients

Consumer

Organism that obtains its nutrients by consuming other organisms.

Herbivore

A consumer that primarily feeds on plants and plant-based materials.

Carnivore

A consumer that primarily feeds on other animals.

Decomposer

Organism that gets it is energy from feeding on animals wastes

food Chain

Transfer of energy from one organism to the other beginning with a producer

The Carbon cycle

Transfer of carbon beginning with Air to fossil fules

The Nitrogen Cycle

Transfer of nitrogen from air to the ground / plants or animals

Population

Group of organisms of the species who live together in the same place in the time

Growth factors

• Food supply

• Competition

• Predation

• Disease

Sigmoid Population curve

• Lag Phase

• Log phase

• Stationary Phase

• Death phase