An organism that can make its own food.

An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.

Consumers that eat only plants.

Consumers that eat only animals.

Consumers that eat both plants and animals.

A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.

Break down biotic wastes and dead organisms and return raw materials to an ecosystem.

A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.

A more realistic way to show the flow of energy through an ecosystem.

Shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.

The process by which molecules of liquid water absorb energy and change to a gas.

The process by which a gas changes to a liquid.

Any form of water falling from the sky.

The process of changing free nitrogen into a usable form of nitrogen.

A group of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms.

The average annual conditions of temperature precipitation, winds, and clouds in an area.

An area that receives less than 25 centimeters of rain per year.

Forests in which large amounts of rain fall year-round.

Tallest layer of the rainforest that receives the most sunlight.

A leafy roof formed by tall trees in a rain forest.

A layer of shorter trees and vines that grows in the shade of a forest canopy.

An area populated mostly by grasses and nonwoody plants that gets 25 to 75 centimeters of rain each year.

A grassland located close to the equator that may include shrubs and small trees and receives as much as 120 centimeters of rain per year.

A tree that sheds its leaves during a particular season and grows new ones each year.

Dense forest of evergreens located in the upper regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

A tree that produces its seeds in cones and that has needle-shaped leaves coated in waxy substance to reduce water loss.

An extremely cold dry biome climate region characterized by short cool summers and bitterly cold winters.

Permanently frozen soil found in the tundra biome climate region.

A kind of wetland formed where fresh water from rivers mixes with salty ocean water

An area between the highest high-tide line on land to the point on the continental shelf exposed by the lowest low-tide line.

The area if the ocean that extends from the low-tide line out to the edge of the continental shelf.

The study of where organisms live and how they got there

The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth's surface.

The movement of organisms from one place to another.

Species that are carried to a new location by people.

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Ecology Unit 2

Question	Answer
Producer	An organism that can make its own food.
Consumer	An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.
Herbivore	Consumers that eat only plants.
Carnivore	Consumers that eat only animals.
Omnivore	Consumers that eat both plants and animals.
Scavenger	A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
Decomposer	Break down biotic wastes and dead organisms and return raw materials to an ecosystem.
Food Chain	A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
Food Web	A more realistic way to show the flow of energy through an ecosystem.
Energy Pyramid	Shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.
Evaporation	The process by which molecules of liquid water absorb energy and change to a gas.
Condensation	The process by which a gas changes to a liquid.
Precipitation	Any form of water falling from the sky.
Nitrogen fixation	The process of changing free nitrogen into a usable form of nitrogen.
Biome	A group of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms.
Climate	The average annual conditions of temperature precipitation, winds, and clouds in an area.
Desert	An area that receives less than 25 centimeters of rain per year.
Rain Forest	Forests in which large amounts of rain fall year-round.
Emergent Layer	Tallest layer of the rainforest that receives the most sunlight.
Canopy	A leafy roof formed by tall trees in a rain forest.
Understory	A layer of shorter trees and vines that grows in the shade of a forest canopy.
Grassland	An area populated mostly by grasses and nonwoody plants that gets 25 to 75 centimeters of rain each year.
Savanna	A grassland located close to the equator that may include shrubs and small trees and receives as much as 120 centimeters of rain per year.
Deciduous tree	A tree that sheds its leaves during a particular season and grows new ones each year.
Boreal Forest	Dense forest of evergreens located in the upper regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
Coniferous Tree	A tree that produces its seeds in cones and that has needle-shaped leaves coated in waxy substance to reduce water loss.
Tundra	An extremely cold dry biome climate region characterized by short cool summers and bitterly cold winters.
Permafrost	Permanently frozen soil found in the tundra biome climate region.
Estuary	A kind of wetland formed where fresh water from rivers mixes with salty ocean water
Intertidal Zone	An area between the highest high-tide line on land to the point on the continental shelf exposed by the lowest low-tide line.
Neritic Zone	The area if the ocean that extends from the low-tide line out to the edge of the continental shelf.
Biogeography	The study of where organisms live and how they got there
Continental Drift	The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth's surface.
Dispersal	The movement of organisms from one place to another.
Exotic Species	Species that are carried to a new location by people.

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