Question | Answer |
all the living and nonliving things in an environment, including their interactions with each other | ecosystem |
the study of how living things and nonliving things interact | ecology |
a nonliving part of an ecosystem | abiotic factor |
a living part of an ecosystem | biotic factor |
all the members of one species in an area | population |
all the living things in an ecosystem | community |
the place where a plant or animal naturally lives and grows | habitat |
the role (job) of an organism in a community | niche |
the path of energy in the food from one organism to another | food chain |
the overlapping food chains in an ecosystem | food web |
an animal that eats plants, algae, and other producers | herbivore |
an animal that eats another animal | carnivore |
an animal that hunts other animals for food | predator |
a living thing that is hunted for food | prey |
a meat eating animal that feeds on the remains of dead animals | scavenger |
an animal that eats both plants and animals | omnivore |
the slow changing of a liquid into a gas | evaporation |
the changing of a gas into a liquid | condensation |
any form of water particles that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground | precipitation |
the continuous movement of water between Earth’s surface and the air, changing from liquid to gas back to liquid | water cycle |
the continuous exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen among living things | carbon cycle |
the continuous trapping of nitrogen gas into compounds in the soil and its return to the air | nitrogen cycle |