Science Vocabulary

Question 1

Food web

Answer 1

A model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things

Question 2

Prey

Answer 2

An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal

Question 3

Predator

Answer 3

An animal that hunts and eats other animals

Question 4

Food chain

Answer 4

A model that shows one set of relationships among living things

Question 5

Energy Pyramid

Answer 5

The model that shows see available amount of energy in each trophic layer in an ecosystem

Question 6

Water cycle

Answer 6

The continual movement of water between land,ocean, and the air through predictable physical processes

Question 7

Carbon cycle

Answer 7

A natural cycle in which carbon compounds,mainly carbon dioxide, are incorporated into living organisms,and the burning of fossil fuels

Question 8

Producer

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Abiotic factors

Answer 9

All nonliving parts of a ecosystem

Question 10

Biotic factors

Answer 10

All living parts of a ecosystem

Question 11

Biome

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Cycle

Answer 12

A process that repeats itself

Question 13

Consumer

Answer 13

An organism that eats other living things to get energy;an organism that does not produce its own food

Question 14

Deciduous forest

Answer 14

A forest containing trees that lose there leaves each year

Question 15

Decomposer

Answer 15

Organisms that carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms

Question 16

Ecology

Answer 16

The branch that deals with relations of organisms to one another to their physical surroundings

Question 17

Nitrogen cycle

Answer 17

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