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Ecology review
4th grade ecology review for test
Question | Answer |
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What is a carnivore? | An animals that eats other animals. |
What is a consumer? | An animal that eats other organisms. |
What is a decomposer? | An organism that breaks down dead organisms to get energy. |
What is a food chain? | The flow of energy through a community. |
What is a food web? | All of the food chains in a community. |
What is a herbivore? | An organism that eats plants. |
What is an omnivore? | An organism that eats both plants and animals. |
What is a producer? | An organism that makes its own food from sunlight. |
What is a scavenger? | An animal that eats dead animals. |
What is commensalism? | A relationship between two organism that helps one and doesn't affect the other. |
What is a host? | An organism that is harmed by a parasite. |
What is mutualism? | A relationship between two organisms that helps both organisms. |
What is a parasite? | An organisim that feeds off another organism for a long period of time. |
What is parasitism | A relationship between two organisms that helps one and harms the other. |
What is a predator? | An animal that hunts and eats other animals. |
What is prey? | An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal. |
What is symbiosis? | A close, long-term relationship between two organsims. |