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An organism that eats animals
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?
An organism that feeds on both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
an organism that hunts, kills, and eats other organisms
What is a predator?
This is the source of energy for most ecosystems on Earth
What is the sun
Any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things.
What is a decomposer?
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis?
The living parts of an ecosystem are called this.
What is Biotic?
one organism of one species
What is an individual?
Animals ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
What is compete?
On the energy pyramid, This is what the organisms that eats the producers are called.
What are primary consumers?
bacteria, insects and fungi fill this role in ecosystems.
What are decomposers?
Food chains that are interconnected with others in a particular ecosystem.
What is a food web?
At the bottom of the food pyramid, what are those organisms called
What are producers
Many of the same species is a...
What is a population?
The living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
What is an ecosystem?
The role that an organism plays in the ecosystem is called this.
What is a niche?
living and nonliving things are parts that make this.
What are ecosystems?
The size of a population that can be supported by an ecosystem is called this.
What is Carrying Capacity?
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
All the populations living in one place ?
What is Community?
the variety of species in an ecosystem
Biodiversity
A scientific term for producers.
What are Autotrophs?
What is heterotroph?
This concept describes anything that constrains a population's size.
What are limiting factors?
the study of the relationships and interactions of living things with their environment
What is Ecology?
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
What is are abiotic factors?