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Ecosystems
Question | Answer |
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predator | A carnivore that hunts and kills other animals for food and has adaptations that help it capture the animals it preys upon |
Carnivore | A consumer that eats only animals. |
Producer | An organism that can make its own food. |
Omnivore | An animal that eats both plants and animals |
Herbivore | A consumer that eats only plants. |
Consumer | An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms |
Decomposer | An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms |
scavenger | A carnivore that eats the bodies of dead organisms |
prey | An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism |
Photosynthesis | process by which plants and some other organisms use light energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and high-energy carbohydrates such as sugars and starches |
Biotic | Describes living factors in the environment. |
Abiotic | Non-living |
F. B. I. | The three main types of decomposers. |
A decomposer's main job | Return nutrients (energy) to the soil |
The Eater | What the arrows in a food web or chain point to |
Food Web | A group of connected food chains |
Food Chain | Shows how energy flows through a simple diagram of organisms |
The Sun | Most food chains trace the energy back to this source |