| A | B |
|---|
| Consumer(heterotroph) | Cannot make its own food; gets energy from consuming other organisms |
| Herbivore | plant eating organism |
| Carnivore | meat eating organism |
| Omnivore | Plant and meat eating organism |
| Scavenger | A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms |
| Decomposer | Living things that feed on dead organisms; break down chemicals for plants to use |
| Food chain | The flow of energy and nutrients through a community |
| Food web | Series of overlapping food chains |
| Energy pyramid | A diagram that compares the amount of energy available at each level of the feeding order in a community |
| Biome | Geographic region that has the same kind of climate and the same kind of community |
| Water cycle | The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and black |
| Evaporation | The process by which molecules of liquid water absorb energy and change to the gas state |
| Condensation | The process by which a gas changes to a liquid |
| Precipitation | heavy drops of water fall back to Earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail |
