CYCLES OF MATTER
Process in which water changes to a vapor.
Evaporation
An organism gets food, water, shelter, and other things from its environment that it needs to live, grow, and reproduce. These are called.....
Resources
An organism that can make its own food is a producer, but is also known as an
Autotroph
The struggle between organisms to survive as they use the same limited resources.
Competition
In the nitrogen cycle, this organism acts as a nitrogen fixer for the water and a nitrogen releaser into the atmosphere.
Bacteria
Process in which a plant releases excess water from leaves.
Transpiration
All members of one species living in a particular area is called
Population
Breaks down biotic wastes and dead organisms, returning the raw materials to the ecosystem.
Decomposers
Mutualism
Relationship in which 2 species live closely together and one benefits, but the other is neither helped nor harmed.
Commensalism
What is the statement: Matter is neither created nor destroyed during any chemical or physical change.
Non-living things that interact with organisms
Abiotic factors
Food webs consist of many overlapping
Food Chains
A relationship that involves one organism living with, on, or inside another organism and harming it
Parasitism
An large underground water source.
Aquifer
What is the name of the types of plants that fix nitrogen into soil?
Legumes
Number of individuals in an area of specific size
Population Density
What part of the food pyramid contains the most energy?
Producers
Give 2 examples of how a camel is adapted to survive in the desert.
Eyelashes, hooves, humps of fat, fur, long legs.
What do consumers release as they break down food to obtain energy?
Carbon Dioxide
On the board: Draw the equation for photosynthesis.
CO2+H2O+Sunlight = C6H12O6 + O2
An environmental factor that causes a population to stop growing or decrease in size
Limiting factor
In the energy pyramid, Energy that is lost into the environment is in the form of
Heat
How an organism obtains its food, the type of food the organism eats, and what other organisms eat it.
Niche
What are the knobs on the roots of peanut plants that contain nitrogen fixing bacteria called?
Nodules