Mrs. Taylors Science Vocab 1

any of numerous groups of microscopic one-celled organisms, some of which aid in decomposition

• bacteria

• decomposer

• microorganism

• producer

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a component of air that plants use to make sugar and that plants and animals breathe out

• O2

• H20

• Carbon Dioxide

• chlorophyll

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a consumer that eats other animals

• carnival

• omnivore

• carnage

• carnivore

an organism that gets energy by eating other organisms.  There are four types:  herbivores, carnivores, omnivores and decomposers

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

• composer

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an organism that gets energy by feeding on dead materials and wastes

• decomposer

• raccoons

• worms, mold, and cats

• all of these are correct

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all the living and nonliving things that interact with each other in an environment

• society

• environment

• community

• ecosystem

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what is stored in food that fuels living things to carry out all of their needs

• kilocalorie

• inertia

• energy

• matter

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an experiment in which only one variable is changed and all others are kept constant

• fair exam

• fair test

• hypothesis

• independent variable

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the transfer of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem

• food chain

• circle of life

• ecosystem

• consumerism

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overlapping food chains with different pathways for the transfer of food energy in an ecosystem 

• food web

• food chain

• kilocalories

• food chart

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