Energy roles in the Ecosystem
An organism that can make its own food.
What is a Producer?
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
What is a Food Chain?
The process by which molecules of liquid water absorb energy and change to gas.
What is Evaporation?
The process in which producers, consumers, and decomposers release carbon dioxide.
What is the Carbon cycle?
The process of changing free nitrogen into a usable form of nitrogen.
What is Nitrogen Fixation?
An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.
What is a Consumer
Many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
What is a Food Web
The process by which a gas changes to liquid.
What is Condensation?
The process of organisms creating and using oxygen to carry out life.
What is the Oxygen cycle?
Consumers that only eat plants.
What are Herbivores?
A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one level to another in a food web.
What is an energy pyramid?
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail falling tho Earth.
What is Precipitation?
Human activities such as burning oil and cutting down forests that affect the levels of carbon and oxygen in the atmosphere.
What is Human Impact?
Consumers that eat only animals.
What are Carnivores?
An example of a third level consumer.
What are scavengers?
Desert like conditions in a once fertile area due to humans overuse of resources.
What is Desertification?
Consumers that eat both plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
Nature's recyclers in the energy cycle.
What are decomposers?
Most Nitrogen fixation is preformed by this organism.
What is Bacteria?