| A | B |
|---|
| ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things in an area |
| omnivore | an animal that eats plants and animals |
| food web | overlapping food chains |
| ecology | the study to interactions between living things and their environments |
| evaporation | process in which liquid is changed into a gas |
| carbon cycle | transfer of carbon between the atmosphere and living things |
| habitat | where an organism lives |
| prey | a living thing that is hunted for food |
| condensation | when gas changes to a liquid |
| herbivore | an animal that eats only producers |
| predator | eats other prey |
| abiotic factor | soil is an example of this |
| scavenger | eats dead things |
| nitrogen cycle | denitrifying bacteria is important in this |
| biotic factor | a plant is an example of this |
| population | all living things |
| food chain | energy passed from producers to consumers to decomposers |
| water cycle | evaporation is part of this |
| community | all populations |
| carnivore | eats other animals |
| niche | what a species eats and where is lives |
| precipition | snow, rain, sleet |
| carbon dioxide | burning fossil fuels releases this |
| composting | how gardeners recycle plants |
| decomposers | organisms that break down dead matter |
