Unit 1 science Vocab
Vocab for ecosystems and chemistry for 8th grade
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- Transpiration
- The process by which water is released into the atmosphere by plants
- 1st Law of Thermodynamics
- Matter can not be created nor destroyed
- Condensation
- when the evaporated water turns into droplets in the clouds gas to liquid
- Consumer
- organisms that get their energy by eating other organisms
- Producer
- organisms that make their own food
- Evaporation
- The heat from the sun takes water to sky in a gas form liquid to gas
- Cellular Respiration
- process of breaking down food to yield energy
- Precipitation
- rain that has condensed from water vapor in earth's atmosphere returning to earth's surface
- Niche
- an animal's way of life
- Water Cycle
- Way water moves in an ecosystem
- Photosynthesis
- process of creating oxygen
- Habitat
- where an animal lives
- Physical Change
- Transpiration
- Abiotic Factors
- nonliving things in an ecosystem
- Trophic Level
- level on a food chain that an organism occupies
- Chemical Change
- Iron rusting
- Biotic Factors
- Living things in an ecosystem