an organism that obtains energy byy feeding on other organisms
What is a consumer
100
the continuous process by which water moves from earth surface to the atmosphere and back
What is the water cycle
100
an area that recieves less than 25 cm of rain per year
What is desert
100
an extremly cold dry biome
What is a tundra
200
a consumer that eats only plants
What is herbivore
200
a consumer that eats only animals
What is a carnivore
200
the process by which gas changes to a liquid
What is condensation
200
a forest with trees that produce cones as offspring
What is a coniferous forest
200
soil that is frozen all year
What is permafrost
300
a consumer that eats both plants and animals
What is a omnivore
300
a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
What is a scavenger
300
the process by which molecules of a liquid absorb energy and change to a gas
What is evaporation
300
a forest that changes seasonly has 4 seasons trees shed leaves and grow new ones every year
What is a deciduous forest
300
lakes surface runnoff and groundwater
What is freshwater
400
an organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
What is a decomposer
400
a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains enrgy
What is a food chain
400
rain snow sleet or hail
What is precipitation
400
a biome that is warm year round and has a lot of rain has a very large variety of animals and organisms
What is a rainforest
400
water
What is marine
500
the pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
What is food web
500
a diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in afood web
What is an energy pyramid
500
a group of land eosystems with similar climate and organisms
What is biomes
500
-an area populated by grasses and other nonwoody plants get 25-75 cm of rain per year
-a grass land close to the eqautor that recives as much as 120 centimeters of rain per year