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Ecosystems
Question | Answer |
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What is a producer? | An organism that makes energy with sunlight |
What is a consumer? | An organism that gains energy from eating other organisms |
What is a decomposer? | An organism that breaks down the remains of other organisms |
What is the source of all energy in an ecosystem? | The sun |
What is a herbivore? | An organism that eats only plants |
What is an omnivore? | An organism that eats plants and animals |
What is a carnivore? | An organism that eats only meat |
What is a predator? | An animal that hunts other animals |
What is prey? | An animal that IS hunted by other animals |
What do the arrows show in a food chain? | Arrows show the direction that the energy flows |
What is the photosynthesis? | The process in which plants take in sunlight to create energy |
What are examples of non-living, abiotic things? | Air, Sunlight, Water, Rocks |
What are examples of living, biotic things? | Plants and animals |