Ecosystems
All the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other.
What is an ecosystem?
The study of interactions between living things and their environment.
What is ecology?
The path energy takes from producers to consumers to decomposers.
What is a food chain?
A living thing that is hunted for food.
What is prey?
Snow, rain, sleet, and hail are all examples.
What is precipitation?
The nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
What are abiotic factors?
The living parts of an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
Overlapping food chains.
What is a food web?
Living things that hunt other living things.
The process in which a gas changes to a liquid.
What is condensation?
One type of species living in the same area make this up.
What is a population?
An animal that eats only producers.
What is an herbivore?
Animals that feed on the remains of dead animals.
What is a scavenger?
Denitrifying bacteria play an important role in this.
What is the nitrogen cycle?
The place where an organism lives.
What is a habitat?
What a species eats and the kind of environment it needs to live in are both factors that help to determine this for a species.
What is niche?
An animal that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
Organisms that break down dead matter.
What are decomposers?
The burning of fossil fuels releases this into the air.
What is carbon dioxide?
Gardeners can recycle plant materials by this.
What is composting?
An animal that eats only meat.
What is a carnivore?
The continuous transfer of carbon between the atmosphere and living things.
What is the carbon cycle?