APES Chapter 3 Vocab

3. Organism that uses solar energy or chemical energy (some bacteria) to manufacture the organic compounds it needs as nutrients.
6. web, Complex network of many interconnected food chains and feeding relationships.
7. runoff, Water flowing off the land into bodies of surface water.
10. cycle, Biogeochemical cycle that collects, purifies, and distributes the earth's fixed supply of water.
14. Organism that digests parts of dead organisms.
16. consumer, Animals that feeds on animal-eating animals.
17. Complex mixture of inorganic minerals.
20. level, All organisms that are the same number of energy transfers away from the original source of energy that enters an ecosystem.
21. Animal that can use both plants and other animals as food sources.
22. respiration, Complex process that occurs in the cells of most living organisms.
23. cycle, Cyclic movement of carbon in different chemical forms.
28. Consumer organism that feeds on detritus.
31. Thin outer crust that contains most of the earth's rock, soil, and sediment.
32. Water-saturated layers of sand, gravel, or bedrock.
33. Gets its organic nutrients by feeding on the tissues of producers or of other consumers.
34. consumer (herbivore), Organism that feeds on some or all parts of plants or on other producers.

1. All the water on Earth's surface.
2. Innermost layer of the atmosphere.
4. cycle, Cyclic movement of phosphorus in different chemical forms.
5. effect, Natural effect that releases heat in the atmosphere near the earth's surface.
8. cycle, Cyclic movement of nitrogen in different chemical forms.
9. Organic matter produced by plants and other photosynthetic producers.
11. Natural process that recycles nutrients in various chemical forms.
12. Water that sinks into the soil.
13. of energy flow (trophic pyramid), Diagram representing the flow of energy through each trophic level in a food chain or food web.
15. Complex process in the cells of green plants that captures light energy and converts it to chemical bond energy.
18. primary productivity, Rate at which an ecosystem's producers capture and store a given amount of chemical energy as biomass in a given length of time.
19. Second layer of the atmosphere.
24. chain, Series of organisms in which each eats or decomposes the preceding one.
25. cycle (biogeochemical cycle), Natural process that recycles nutrients in various chemical forms from the nonliving environment to living organisms and then back to the nonliving environment.
26. Zone of the earth where life is found.
27. Whole mass of air surrounding the earth.
29. consumer (carnivore), Organism that feeds only on primary consumers.
30. primary productivity, Rate at which all the plants in an ecosystem produce net useful chemical energy.