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Chap 25 non living
Vocab for chap 25
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abiotic | nonliving physical features in an environment |
| atmosphere | air that surrounds Earth |
| biotic | features in an enviroment that are alive or once alive |
| carbon cycle | movement of carbon molecules between the living and nonliving world |
| climate | an area's average weather conditioins over time |
| condensation | gas changing back into a liquid |
| energy pyramid | model that shows the amount of energy available at each feeding level |
| evaporation | liquid changes into a gas |
| food web | model which shows all feeding relationships among organisms in a community |
| nitrogen cycle | transfer of nitrogen to atmosphere to soil to living organisims and back again |
| nitrogen fixation | bacteria in soil make nitrogen for plants to use |
| soil | Mixture of mineral and rock particles, water, air and dead stuff |
| water cycle | how water moves from the surface of Earth to the atmosphere and back again |
| chemosynthesis | making energy rich molecules from chemicals |