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Chapter 2 Science
Science Vocabulary for Chapter 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| producer | an organism that makes its own food |
| herbivore | a consumer that only eats plpants |
| carnivore | a consumer that only eats meat |
| omnivore | a consumer that eats both plants and meat |
| consumer | an organism that obtains energy from energy from feeding on other organisms |
| scavenger | a carnivore that feeds off on the dead bodies of organisms |
| decomposer | organisms that feed off of dead things and return the nutrients ( to the soil) |
| food web | overlapping food chains |
| food chain | a series of events in which one organism eaats another and obtains energy |
| energy pyramid | shows the amount of energy in that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web |
| water cycle | processes of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation make it up |
| carbon and oxygen cycle | processes by which carbon and oxygen are recycled are linked |
| nitrogen | notrogen moves from the air to the soil, into living things and back into the air |
| evaporation | process by which liquid water changes to water vapor |
| condensation | process by which water vapor changes to liquid water |
| precipitation | process by which water, in any form, (rain snow hail, sleet,) falls from the atmosphere to the earths surface |
| nitrogen fixation | process by which changing free nirtogen into a usable form |
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