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An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food
What is a producer
any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
an organism that hunts, kills, and eats other organisms
What is a predator
Plants source of energy
What is sun
Many of the same species is a...
What is a population?
An organism that is being hunted.
What is prey?
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms
What are scavengers?
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis?
In a food web this animal eats another animal.
What are secondary consumers?
one organism of one species
What is an individual?
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
What is are abiotic factors?
Animals ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
What is an compete?
Any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things.
What is a decomposer?
When the prey increase, what happens to the predator?
it increases
Food chains that is interconnected/overlaps in a particular ecosystem
What is a food web?
At the top of the food pyramid, what are those organisms called
What are tertiary consumers
What happens when you go down the food pyramid
The amount of organism increases
When one organism feeds off another organism.
What is parasitism?
The living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
What is an ecosystem?
On the food chain what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are primary consumers?
Type of relationship where one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
Living organisms in an ecosystem are called...
What is biotic?
An animal that eats plants or other animals.
What is a consumer?
An area that is suitable for a particular organism to live in is called....
What is a habitat?
All the populations living in one place ?
What is Community?
the variety of species in an ecosystem
Biodiversity
The role that an organism plays in the ecosystem is called...
What is a niche?
When both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
When one animal is hunting another animal.
What is predator-prey?
the study of the relationships and interactions of living things with their environment
What is Ecology?
When the predator increase what happens to the prey?
it decreases
Which sequence illustrates a generalized food chain in a natural community?
1. producer herbivore carnivore
2. autotroph herbivore autotroph
3. heterotroph herbivore carnivore
4. Consumer autotroph carnivore
1. producer herbivore carnivore