Chapter 22/ Vocab Word Scramble

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Chapter 22/ Vocab

Section 1 & 4

Question	Answer
an organism that makes its own food	producer
an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms	consumer
eat only animals	carnivore
eat both plants and animals	omnivore
a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms	scavenger
break down wastes and dead organisms and return raw materials to the ecosystem	decomposer
a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy	food chain
consists of the many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem	food web
shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web	energy pyramid
a group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms	biome
a leafy roof formed by tall trees	canopy
a layer of shorter plants that grow in the shade of a forest canopy	understory
an area that recieves less than 25 centimeters of precipitation per year	desert
an area populated by grasses and other nonwoody plants	grassland
a grassland close to the equator that recieves as much as 120 centimeters of rain per year	savanna
Trees that shed their leaves and grow new ones each year	deciduous tree
Trees that have their seed in cones and leaves shaped like needles	conferous tree
Extremely cold and dry biome	tundra
Frozen soil	permafrost
Where fresh water of a river meets the salt water of an ocean	estuary
	intertidal zone
	neritic zone

Created by: EnglandEmily on 2009-04-29