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Chapter 2 lesson 1
Science vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Producer | Producer are the source of all the food in an ecosystem. |
| Consumer | organisms that obtain energy by feeding on other organism . |
| Herbivore | consumers that eat only plants. |
| Carnivore | consumers that only eat animals |
| Omnivore | consumers that eat both plants and animals |
| Scavenger | a carnivore that feeds on that bodies of dead organisms |
| Decomposer | break down biotic wastes and dead organisms |
| Food web | consit of many overlapping food chains in a ecosystem |
| Food Chain | is a series of events in which one ecosystem |
| Energy Pyramid | shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another |
| evaporation | The process by which molecules of liquid water asorb energy and changes to a gas |
| condensation | The process by which a gas changes to a liquid |
| nitrogen fixation | The process of changing free nitrogen into a usable form of nitrogen |
| precipiation | Any form of water that falls from clouds and reachs the earths surface as rain,snow,sleet, or hail |