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Chapter 2 Lesson 1
Science vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Producer | An organism that can make its own food. |
| Consumer | An organism that contains energy by feeding on other organisms. |
| Herbivore | A consumer that contains energy by eating only plants. |
| Omnivore | A consumer that contains energy by eating both plants and animals. |
| Scavenger | A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead or decaying organisms. |
| Decomposer | An organism that gets energy by by breaking down biotic wastes and dead organisms, and returns raw materials to the soil and water. |
| Food chain | A series of events in an ecosystem which organisms transfer energy by eating and by being eaten. |
| Food web | The pattern of overlapping feeding relationships or food chains among the various organisms in an ecosystem. |
| Energy pyramid | A diagram that show the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web. |
| evaporation | The process which by molecules at the surface of a liquid absorb enough energy to change to a gas |
| condensation | The change in state from a gas to a liquid |
| precipitation | Any form of water that forms from the clouds and reaches Earth's surface as rain, snow, sleet, or hail. |
| Nitrogen Fixation | The process of changing free nitrogen gas into nitrogen compounds that plants can absorb and use. |