Super Awesome Questions
Consumers that eat both plants and animals
omnivores
The law that states that matter is neither created nor destroyed during any chemical or physical change
The Law of Conservation of Mass
The water cycle process where condensed water forms clouds and falls from the sky as rain, snow, sleet, or hail
precipitation
Carnivores that feed on the bodies of dead organisms
scavengers
The law that states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can change from one form to another
The Law of Conservation of Energy
The three types of organisms that play a role in recycling carbon and oxygen
producers, consumers, and decomposers
The three types of diagrams that are used to show energy transfer
1. food chain
2. food web
3. energy pyramid
The 3 processes involved in the water cycle
evaporation, condensation, and precipitation
Human activities that release carbon dioxide into the air
clearing forests, burning gasoline, burning natural gas
A diagram showing a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy and nutrients
food chain
The water cycle process where gas turn to liquid
condensation
Nitrogen gas that is not combined with other kinds of atoms
free nitrogen
A diagram consisting of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
food web
The water cycle process where liquid turns to gas
evaporation
The process of changing free nitrogen into a usable form of nitrogen
nitrogen fixation