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Animal that hunts and eats other animals
What is a predator
Provides energy for all living things
What is the sun
The place where an organism lives
What is a habitat
organism that a food chain always begins with
What is a producer
Organism that eats both plants and animals
What is an omnivore
Special characteristics or skills that help living things survive in their environment
What are adaptations
basic skills and knowledge animals need to survive
What are instincts
Transfer of energy and nutrients through a community
What is a food chain
Consumer that eats only consumers
What is a carnivore
Organism that depends on producers for food
What are consumers
All the different species that live in a particular ecosystem
What is a community
3 things a plant needs for photosysthesis
What are water, sunlight, carbon dioxide
Each living member of an ecosystem
What is an individual
Organism that gets its energy directly from the sun
What is a producer
Organism that breaks down dead things and waste
What is a decomposer
Keeps the ecosystem clean by eating what has already died
What is a scavenger
Shows how energy moves through one food chain
What is a food pyramid
Food chains linked together
What is a food web
All organisms of the same species that live in an ecosystem
What is a population
Consist of all living organisms and their environments in a certain section of the earth
What is an ecosystem
A special partnership in which two species interact with each other over a long period of time
What is symbiosis
organism that lives on or inside another organism
What is a parasite
An organisms specific function or job in an ecosystem
What is a niche
Occurs when two or more organisms are trying to use the same resource
What is competition
Leaving one ecosystem and moving to another
What is migration