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What is an herbivore?
An animal that only eats plants.
All the living and nonliving things and the environment in which they interact is an ___.
ecosystem
What do all food chains or food webs begin with?
producers (plants)
A living thing that makes its own food and gets its energy directly from the sun is a ___.
producer
Fish and berries are resources that meet a bear's need for __.
food
grow
An animal that eats only meat is a ___.
carnivore
True or False:
All the populations, communities, and habitats make up an ecosystem.
True
A place where a living thing lives is called a ___.
habitat
What happens when one part of a food chain or food web changes?
It affects the whole chain or web.
A living thing that gets its energy by eating other living things as food is a ___.
consumer
There is competition between animals when they share the same limited ___.
resource
All the living things in one area is called a ___.
community
What is an omnivore?
A mushroom is a ___.
decomposer
All the living things of one kind living in one area is called a ___.
population
How can people take care of the earth when they go fishing or hunting?
People can limit the amount of food they catch to only what they need. God wants us to use resources wisely.
If many producers are taken away, the herbivore population will ___.
decrease
Whys do deer survive well when the temperature gets colder?
A living thing that breaks down dead things and decaying matter is a ___.
decomposer
A food chain is the movement of ___ from one living thing to another living thing.
energy
An ecosystem stays balanced when ___ control population sizes.
predators
What is an advantage of animals living in groups?
1) find food more easily
2) protect each other & offspring from predators
3) be more protected from the cold
A food web is __.
several food chains linked together
Why were there no carnivores before the Fall?
In Genesis 1, God created people and animals to eat only plants.