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5th Grade Ecosystems
Question | Answer |
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All the living and nonliving parts in an area | ecosystem |
The study of the relationships among living and nonliving parts of an area | ecology |
What are three nonliving parts of the ecosystem? | Water, sunlight, and temperature |
The place where a species lives | habitat |
The role of a species in an ecosystem | niche |
All the members of one species that live in the same area | population |
All the populations living together in one area | community |
The process by which plants use sunlight to make sugar | photosynthesis |
A living thing that makes it own food using sunlight | producer |
A living thing that eats other living things for food | consumer |
Living thing that eat only plants for energy | herbivore |
Consumer that only eats other consumers for food | carnivore |
Consumer that eats both plants and animals | omnivore |
Animal that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms | scavenger |
organism that helps to break down and decay dead organisms and the wastes of living organisms | decomposer |
Pictures scientists use to show how energy and nutrients pass from one organism to another in an ecosystem | food chains |
Compares the amount of energy available at each level in the feeding order | energy pyramid |
Combination of all the food chains in a community | food web |