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Ecology
Question | Answer |
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Evaporation | Process by which molecules of liquid water absorb energy and change to a gas. |
Precipitation | Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches the earth’s surface: rain, snow, sleet, hail. |
Condensation | Process by which a gas changes to a liquid. |
Nitrogen Fixation | Process of changing free nitrogen gas into nitrogen compounds that plants can absorb and use. |
Producer | An organism that can make its own food. |
Consumer | An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms. |
Herbivore | Consumers that only eat plants. |
Carnivore | Consumers that only eat animals. |
Omnivore | Consumers that eat plants and animals. |
Scavenger | A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms. |
Decomposer | Organisms that break down biotic wastes and dead organisms and return the raw materials to the ecosystem. |
Food Chain | A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy |
Food Web | Many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem. |
Energy Pyramid | A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web. |
Organism | A living thing |
Habitat | An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow and reproduce. |
Biotic Factor | Parts of a habitat that are living, or once living, and interact with an organism. |
Abiotic Factor | Nonliving parts of an organism’s habitat. |
Species | A group of organisms that can mate and produce offspring that can also mate and produce offspring |
Population | All members of one species living in an area |
Community | All the different populations that live together in an area |
Ecosystem | The community of organisms that live in a area, along with their nonliving environment. |
Ecology | Study of how organisms interact with each other and with their environment. |