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An organism that can make it's own food is a what?
What is a producer?
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms is called a what?
What is scavenger?
The advance of desert-like conditions in an area once fertile is called a...
What is desertification?
Photosynthesis is responsible for most of the oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere. This is part of what cycle?
What is the Oxygen Cycle?
The most energy is available at what level of the pyramid?
What is the producer level?
A consumer is also known as what?
What is an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms?
Decomposers break down ______ waste and dead organisms and return the _____ _______ to the ecosystem?
Evaporation is...
What is the process by which molecules of liquid water absorb energy and change to a gas?
When humans burn oil and other plant-based fuels, carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere. What type of impact is this?
What is human impact?
When moving up the energy pyramid you multiply the amount of Kilocalories by what?
What is 0.1?
Consumers that eat only plants are also considered as a what?
What is a herbivore?
A food chain is a series of what in which one organism eats another and obtains energy?
What is events?
The process by which a gas changes to a liquid is called...
What is condensation?
The process of changing free nitrogen into a usable form of nitrogen is called...
What is nitrogen fixation?
In ecosystems, the process by which carbon and oxygen are recycled are linked. Producers, consumers, and decomposers all play roles in recycling...
What is carbon and oxygen?
A carnivore eats what?
What is other animals?
A food web consists of what?
What is many overlapping food chains in the ecosystem?
Eventually heavy drops fall to earth as precipitation which consists of...
What is rain, snow, sleet or hail?
Each of the organisms in an ecosystem fills the energy roles of...
What is producer, consumer, or decomposer?
Energy moves through an ecosystem when one organism...
What is eats another?
Consumers that eat both plants and animals is what type of animal?
What is an omnivore?
An energy pyramid is a diagram that shows the amount of what?
What is energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web?
As food is broken down, producers and consumers release carbon dioxide and water into the environment. This one step is part of the...
What is the carbon cycle?
Energy moves through an ecosystem when one organism...
What is eats another?
Human activities may affect the balance in an ecosystem and can also...
What is change the ecosystem?