UNIQUE EARTH
CYCLES IN NATURE
VOCABULARY
CLASSIFICATION
Misc.
100
The only planet to support life.
What is Earth
100
Contains evaporation, condensation, transpiration, and precipitation.
What is the water cycle?
100
Any living thing in the environment.
What is a biotic factor?
100
The largest group in the classification system.
What is a domain?
100
A simple way to show how energy flows through a small part of a biome.
What is a food chain?
200
Contains combustion, and decomposition.
What is the carbon cycle?
200
Anything in the environment that is not living.
What are abiotic factors?
200
The smallest and most specific classification category.
What is species?
200
Animals that eat both plants and other animals.
What is an omnivore?
300
The organisms on Earth that give off oxygen.
What are plants?
300
In this cycle, lightning can change the gas into a form that plants can use.
What is the nitrogen cycle?
300
Grouping of organisms due to their characteristics.
What is classification?
300
This is used to put organism into different categories.
What are characteristics?
300
A way to show how energy flows throughout a biome.
What is a food web?
400
Organisms on Earth that give off carbon dioxide?
What are animals?
400
Photosynthesis is the basis of this cycle.
What is the carbon cycle?
400
The way an organism interacts with abiotic and biotic factors to obtain food, find shelter, and fulfill other needs.
What is a niche?
400
The two names that make up a scientific name.
What is genus species?
400
The arrows on a food chain and a food web show this.
What is the way the energy flows?
500
Provides most of the energy for the Earth.
What is the Sun?
500
Where most nitrogen is found in nature.
What is the atmosphere?
500
The place within an ecosystem where an organism lives; provides the biotic and abiotic factors an organism needs to survive and reproduce.
What is habitat?
500
The reason scientists use scientific names for organisms.
What is to make it less confusing?
500
The order of classification from largest to smallest.
What is Domain, Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.
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