_________are consumers that get their nutrients by breaking down nonliving organic matter.

____________get their nourishment by consuming freshly dead organisms, before they are fully decomposed.

Complex process that uses oxygen and glucose to produce energy and occurs in the cells of most living organisms.

A sequence of organisms that serves as a source of nutrients or energy for the next level of organisms is called a _________.

A_____________is a complex network of interconnected food chains.

__________is the rate at which an ecosystem's producers convert radiant energy into chemical energy.

Continual movement of the elements and compounds that make up nutrients through air, water, soil, rock, and living organisms within ecosystems.

Precipitation that falls on land and flows over land surfaces into streams, rivers, lakes, wetlands, and the ocean.

Underground layers of sand, gravel, and water-bearing rock where groundwater collects.

In the_________different compounds of carbon circulate through the biosphere, atmosphere, and the parts of the geosphere and hydrosphere.

The_________includes all of the gaseous, liquid, and solid water on or near Earth's surface.

Process in which solar energy warms the troposphere as it reflects from Earth's surface (geosphere) and interacts with the carbon dioxide, methane and water vapor.

The__________is an envelope of gases that surround our planet.

Review:_____________occurs when a quantity increases at a fixed percentage per unit of time. It starts slowly but the quantity soon becomes enormous.