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07 Science
Question | Answer |
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adaptation | a special characteristic or skill that helps a living thing survive in an environment |
basic needs of all living things | food, water, shelter, and protection from predators |
carnivore | a consumer that eats only other consumers |
community | all the different species that live in a particular ecosystem |
competition | ~occurs when two or more organisms try to use the same resources ~helps to keep an ecosystem in balance |
consumer | an organism that depends on producers for food |
decomposer | an organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms |
ecosystem | consists of all the living organisms and their environment in a certain section of the earth |
energy pyramid | shows how energy moves through a food chain |
environment | the nonliving part of an ecosystem |
food chain | the transfer of energy and nutrients through a community |
food web | several food chains linked together |
habitat | the place where an organism lives |
herbivores | consumers that eat only plants; are usually the second link of a food chain |
hibernation | ~animal's body temperature drops ~breathing rate and heart rate slow down ~animal usually sleeps through the winter ~one way that animals adapt to their climate |
host | the plant or animal that a parasite lives on or in |
individual | each living member of an ecosystem |
instincts | God-given basic knowledge and skills that it needed for survival |
learned behavior | behaviors that cannot be inherited |
migration | ~a whole group of animals leaves one ecosystem and moves to another ~can happen for many reasons: to find food or water, to avoid extreme weather, or to reproduce/raise their young |
niche | an organism's specific job or function in an ecosystem |
omnivore | organism that eats both plants and animals |
parasite | any organism that lives on or in another organism and takes its food from that organism |
photosynthesis | plants need sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water for __________________ |
population | includes all the organisms of the same species that live in an ecosystem |
predators | animals that hunt and eat other animals |
prey | organisms that carnivores hunt |
producer | ~an organism that gets its energy directly from the sun and changes the energy into a form that other organisms can use ~the beginning of every food chain |
scavenger | keeps the ecosystem clean by eating what has already died |
sun | the original source of energy for all living things |
symbiosis | a special partnership that occurs whenever two species interact with each other over a long period of time |
Why should a Christian learn about the interactions in ecosystems? | Understanding interactions in an ecosystem helps Christian exercise good dominion by living in habitats without destroying them. |