Ecosystems
The source of almost all of Earth's energy is ______.
What is the sun?
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The process when water changes into a gas.
What is evaporation?
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Energy that flows in an ecosystems through feeding relationships.
What is a food chain?
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Energy moves in a _____ pattern.
What is Flow?
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Animals that eat other animals.
What is a carnivore?
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The ____________ consists of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
What is the water cycle?
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A process where gas goes through the atmosphere and through the ground.
What is the Nitrogen Cycle?
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The complex feeding relationships among organisms in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
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Matter moves in a _____ pattern.
What is cycle?
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Animals that eat plants.
What is a herbivore?
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A lack of water, an __________, affected Biotic factors in an ecosystem.
What is Abiotic Factors?
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A process where animals take in oxygen then give it to plants that gives it to the atmosphere.
What is the Oxygen Cycle?
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Energy available in each step of a food chain.
What is an energy pyramid?
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The process during which producers use chemical energy in matter rather than light energy and make food.
What is chemosynthesis?
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Something that eats both producers and consumers.
What is a omnivore?
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Average weather conditions.
What is climate?
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A process in which Carbon is spread throughout the atmosphere.
What is the Carbon Cycle?
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Energy that moves in a line.
What is a flow pattern?
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The idea that energy can be created or destroyed.
What is the Law of Conversion?
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Something that gets their energy by eating remains of other dead organisms.
What is a detritivore?
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Matter moves in an environment by __________.
What is cycles of matter?
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The process that changes atmospheric nitrogen into nitrogen compounds.
What is nitrogen fixation?
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People who make things or products.
What is a producer?
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To show how food chains in a community are interconnected.
What are food webs?
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Organisms that feed on dead organisms and help decompose them.
What is a decomposer?
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