Animals
An organism that can make its own food
producer
The process by which molecules at the surface of a liquid absorbs enough energy to change to gas
Evaporation
The environment where an organism gets its resources
habitat
the community of organisms plus nonliving things in a particular area
ecosystem
An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
consumer
The change in the state from Gas to liquid
Condensation
nonliving parts of an organism's habitat
abiotic factor
the number of individual organisms in an area of a specific size (quantitative)
population density
A series of events in which one organism eats another to obtain energy and nutrition
Food web
Any form of water that falls from a cloud in reaches the Earth surface as rain sleet snow or hail
Precipitation
parts of a habitat that are or were once alive
biotic factor
an organism's job in the movement of energy through its ecosystem
energy role
Consists of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
Food web
A living thing
Organism
all members of one species living in a particular area
population
the cycle by which water circulates between the earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land
water cycle
A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding to another in a food web
Food pyramid
Things that an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce
resources
all the different populations that live together
community
Matter can not be created nor destroyed
law of conservation