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This type of consumer eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
This is a consumer who hunts for its food.
What is a predator?
This type of consumer eats only plants.
What is a herbivore?
What is a carnivore?
What is an organism?
Multiple food chains interacting.
What is a food web?
An organism that can make its own food is called this _____.
What is a producer?
An organism that eats a primary consumer is called this ____.
What is secondary consumer?
An organism that breaks down dead matter and returns nutrients to the soil.
What is a decomposer?
All living and nonliving things that exist and interact in one place.
What is an ecosystem?
A living part of an ecosystem, including animals, plants, and fungi.
What is biotic?
The process of making more of one's own kind.
What is reproduction?
A characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment, such as camouflage.
What is adaptation?
A nonliving part of an ecosystem, including water, soil and temperature.
What is abiotic?
All the organisms of the same kind that live in an ecosystem.
What is population?
The soil on a plain is eroded and the grass starts to die. Animals that graze on this grass would probably ___.
What is decrease in number?
Unlike plants, animals cannot make their own food. How do animals obtain the energy they need?
What is "eat other organisms?"
The permanent disappearance or elimination of a species.
All the organisms that live in the same ecosystem and interact with one another.
What is community?
Organisms get the energy and building materials that they need from food. What does the original source of energy come from? (Where do plants get energy?)
What is the sun?
The arrow represents this in a food chain or food web.
What is flow of energy?
Everything that surrounds and affects a living thing.
What is environment?
In the energy pyramid, an organism that eats the secondary consumer is called ___.
What is tertiary consumer?
One of Earth's largest ecosystem, with its climate, soil, plants, and animals.
What is a biome?
The remains of plants and animals.
What is organic matter?