A | B |
Variables | Factors that can change in an experiment |
Data | Facts, figures and other evidence gathered during an experiment |
Controlled experiment | Experiment with only one variable that is changed |
Producer | An organism that can make its own food |
Consumer | Organism that gets energy by feeding on other organisms |
Herbivore | Consumers that eat only plants |
Carnivore | Consumers that eat only animals |
Omnivore | Consumer that eats both plants and animals |
Scavenger | Carnivore that eats dead organisms |
Decomposer | Organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms into raw materials |
Food chain | Series of events in which one organism eats another to obtain energy |
Food web | Many overlapping food chains |
Energy pyramid | Graphic that shows the amount of energy that moves from one energy level to another |
Water cycle | Process by which water moves between Earth and atomosphere |
Evaporation | Liquid water changes into the gas state |
Condensation | A gas changes into a liquid |
Precipitation | Rain, Snow, Hail, Sleet |
Nitrogen fixation | Process of chaning free nitrogen gas into useable nitrogen compounds |
Nodules | Bumps on plant roots where bacteria live |