Vocabulary
All of the living and nonliving things in an area interacting with each other describes an
ecosystem
All the energy in an ecosystem comes from the
sun
A living part of a system is what kind of factor?
Heat energy makes water ___________ and rise into the air.
evaporate
Decomposers break down dead organisms and produce _________ that enrich the soil.
Nutrients
_____________ is any form of water particles
precipitation
The path that energy takes from producers to consumers to decomposers is called a
food chain
The area in which an organism lives is its
habitat
Water stored in soil and rock is
ground water
Living things that hunt other living things
predators
All of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time is a
population
Food chains overlap in a
food web
Living organisms that produce oxygen and food that animals need are called
producers
The process of naturally recycling water on Earth is called the
Water cycle
When cooled enough, water vapor ___________ into tiny water droplets.
condenses
All the populations living in an area describes a
community
Organisms that use the Sun's energy to make their own food are called
producers
Animals, or _______________ produce the carbon dioxide that plants need.
consumers
How to humans obtain nitrogen?
Through protein
Organisms that cannot make their own food
consumers
The role an organism has in its ecosystem is its
niche
Food chains end with ____________.
decomposers
The study of how living and nonliving things interact in the same place is called __________
ecology
In the carbon cycle, carbon is transferred between ____________ and living things.
the air
herbivores