Chapter 2- Energy Flow In The Ecosystem

Question 1

Producer

Answer 1

An organism that can make its own food.

Question 2

Consumer

Answer 2

An organism that obtains energy by feeding on their organisms.

Question 3

Herbivore

Answer 3

A consumer that obtains energy by eating only plants.

Question 4

Carnivore

Answer 4

An organism that obtains energy by eating only meat.

Question 5

Scavenger

Answer 5

A carnivore that feeds only on the bodies of dead or decaying organisms

Question 6

Omnivore

Answer 6

A consumer that obtains energy by eating both plants and animals

Question 7

Decomposer

Answer 7

An organism that get energy by breaking down biotic wastes and dead organisms, and returned materials to water and soil.

Question 8

Food chain

Answer 8

A series of events in an ecosystem in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten.

Question 9

Food Web

Answer 9

The pattern of overlapping feeding relations or food chains among the various organisms in the ecosystem.

Question 10

Energy pyramid

Answer 10

A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.

Question 11

Evaporation

Answer 11

The process by which molecules at the surface of a liquid absorb enough energy to change to a gas.

Question 12

Condensation

Answer 12

The change in state from a gas to a liquid.

Question 13

Precipitation

Answer 13

Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earths surface as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.

Question 14

Nitrogen fixation

Answer 14

The process of changing free nitrogen gas into nitrogen compounds that plants can absorb and use.