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Unit 6 Quiz 2
Ecology 2 2026
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| producer | an organism that can make its own food. |
| consumer | obtains energy by feeding on other organisms. |
| decomposer | break down biotic wastes and dead organisms, returning the raw materials to the ecosystem. |
| food chain | a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy and nutrients. |
| food web | consists of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem |
| energy pyramid | shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web. |
| law of conservation of mass | states that matter is neither created nor destroyed during a chemical or physical change. |
| law of conservation of energy | states that when one form of energy is transformed to another, no energy is lost in the process. |
| evaporation | the process by which molecules at the surface of liquid water absorb enough energy to change it to a gas. |
| condensation | the process of a gas changing to a liquid. |
| precipitation | heavy drops fall in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail. |