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The transfer of energy and nutrients through a community
What is a food chain?
What is population?
an organism's specific function or job
What is a niche?
Keeps an ecosystem clean by eating what is already dead
What are scavengers?
An organism that lives on or in another organism and gets food from that organism
What is a parasite?
What are decomposers?
Several food chains linked together
What is a food web?
Organisms that depend on producers for food
What are consumers?
Animals a predator hunts
What are prey?
Special partnership in which 2 species interact with each other over a long period of time
What is symbiosis?
God given basic knowledge and skills that an animal needs for survival
What are instincts?
Occurs when 2 or more organisms are trying to use the same resources
What is competition?
Organism that eats both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
Plants need sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water for this.
What is photosynthesis?
An animal that hunts and eats other other animals
What is a predator?
organisms that get their energy directly from the sun
What are producers?
All the different species that live in a particular ecosystem
What is a community?
The place where an organism lives
What is a habitat?
Each living member of an ecosystem
What is an individual?
Organism a food chain begins with
What are producers?
A consumer that eats other consumers
What is a carnivore?
contains all the living organisms and their environment in a certain section of the earth
What is an ecosystem?
The living part of an ecosystem
What is a community?
This shows how energy moves through a food chain
What is an enegy pyramid?
Four basic needs of all living things
What are food, water, protection, and shelter?
Special characteristics that help living things survive
What are adaptations?
The movement of a whole group of animals from one ecosystem to another.
What is migration?
Inherited behaviors
What are intincts?
Tiny holes that allow air and water to move in and out of plant leaves
What are stomata?
provides energy for all living things
What is the sun?
Caused original creation to change
What is Adam's sin?
Plants, herbs, and trees
What were Adam and Eve were allowed to eat?
What is taught by parents to offspring
What is learned behavior?
Bacteria, molds, mushrooms
What are decomposers?
90%
What amount of energy does each organism use to live and grow?
Orchids
What is a parasite on a tree?