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| An organism that makes its own food. |
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| An organism that obtains energy by feeding on another organism. |
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| Consumers that eat plants only. |
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| Consumers that eat animals only. |
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| Consumers that eat both plants and animals. |
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| A carnivore that feeds on bodies of dead organisms. |
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| Decomposers break down wastes and dead organisms and return the raw materials to the ecosystem. |
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| A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. |
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| A food web consists of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem. |
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| The amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web. |
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| The process by which molecules of liquid water absorb energy and change to a gas. |
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| The process by which a gas changes to a liquid. |
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| When heavy drops fall back to earth usually rain, sleet, snow or hail. |
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| The continuous process by which water moves from earth's surface to the atmosphere and back. |
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| An area that is populated mostly by grasses and other non woody plants. |
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