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Question 1

Energy pyramid

Answer 1

a model that shows the available amount of energy in each trophic layer in an ecosystem

Question 2

Food web

Answer 2

a model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things

Question 3

Decomposer

Answer 3

organisms which carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms.

Question 4

Food Chain

Answer 4

a model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things

Question 5

Coniferous

Answer 5

a type of plant with needle-like leaves that uses cones to reproduce

Question 6

Consumer

Answer 6

an organism that eats other living things to get energy; an organism that does not produce its own food (related word: consume)

Question 7

Biome

Answer 7

a major ecological community such as grassland, tropical rain forest, or desert

Question 8

Deciduous

Answer 8

a forest containing trees that lose their leaves each year

Question 9

Ecology

Answer 9

the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.

Question 10

Cycle

Answer 10

a process that repeats

Question 11

Nitrogen Cycle

Answer 11

process in which nitrogen in the atmosphere enters the soil and becomes part of living organisms then eventually returns to the atmosphere

Question 12

Biotic factors

Answer 12

all of the living parts of an ecosystem

Question 13

Water Cycle

Answer 13

the continual movement of water between the land, ocean, and the air

Question 14

Abiotic Factor

Answer 14

all of the nonliving parts of an ecosystem

Question 15

Producer

Answer 15

an organism that makes its own food; an organism that does not consume other plants or animals

Question 16

Carbon Cycle

Answer 16

a natural cycle in which carbon compounds, mainly carbon dioxide, are incorporated into living tissue through photosynthesis and returned to the atmosphere by respiration, decay of dead organisms, and the burning of fossil fuels