Ecosystem 1 Vocabulary
Weather 1 Vocabulary
Ecosystem 2 Vocabulary
Weather 2 Vocabulary
Ecosystem and Weather 3 Vocabulary
100
An organism that produces its own food and provides energy to other organisms
What is a producer?
100
The process by which water returns to the Earth's surface in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
100
A living thing that hunts other living things for food.
What is a predator?
100
A weather instrument that is used to measure rainfall.
What is a rain gauge?
100
An organism that eats both plants and animals. (Includes humans)
What is an omnivore?
200
An area where an animal lives and hunt for food.
What is its habitat?
200
A weather instrument that is used to measure air temperature.
What is a thermometer?
200
The role that an organism plays in its ecosystem.
What is its niche?
200
Feathery clouds made of ice crystals that are usually associated with fair weather.
What is cirrus?
200
A destructive funnel shaped wind-storm that forms over land.
What is a tornado?
300
An organism that breaks down dead or decaying plants and animals and puts nutrients back into the soil
What is a decomposer?
300
The bottom layer of the earth's surface. This is where all weather takes place.
What is the troposphere?
300
The path of energy in food from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
300
When water vapor turns back into a liquid.
What is condensation?
300
The overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
400
A nonliving factor (part) of an ecosystem, includes water, soil, air, and temperature
What is abiotic?
400
A scientist who studies weather in order to predict what the weather will be like.
What is a meteorologist?
400
Anything that controls the growth or survival of an organism or population.
What is a limiting factor?
400
A weather instrument used to measure the direction of the wind and the speed of the wind. (Used at motor speedways and airlines)
What is a wind sock?
400
Wind from the sea that develops over land near a coast.
What is a sea breeze?
500
A hot, humid biome near the equator, with much rainfall and a wide variety of life.
What is a tropical rainforest?
500
Water from rain or snow that flows on the ground and eventually into streams. (A part of the water or hydrologic cycle)
What is runoff?
500
The process in which plants use the sun's energy to make food.
What is photosynthesis?
500
The heating of the earth's atmosphere caused by excessive carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.
What is the greenhouse effect?
500
A forest biome with many kinds of trees that lose their leaves each autumn.
What is a deciduous forest?
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