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What are the two main components of an ecosystem?
Where do producers obtain their energy from?
What is an omnivore?
An animal that eats both meat and plants
What is the difference between herbivore and carnivore?
Carnivores only eat meat and Herbivores only eat plants
What is a interspecific relationship?
Is a relationship between organisms of different species
What is an apex predator?
The last consumer on a food chain
Explain mutualism
When both organisms are benefited
How is energy transferred from one organism to another?
When they consume each other
What are abiotic components on an ecosystem?
Non living things
What is a decomposer?
An organism that breaks down remains and returns them to the soil as nutrients
What organism makes photosynthesis and what is it?
Producers; is a process in which plants absorb the light from the sun and make their own food
Give 2 examples of decomposers
Fungi and bacteria
What is a producer?
An organism that is able to make its own food
If a grasshopper eats a plant and a frog eats a grasshopper. What consumer is the frog?
Secondary consumer
What is the difference of food chain and food web?
The food web is the connection of many food chains
Alligators are reptiles that live in the everglades. They feed on small mammals, birds, and fish. Which word best describes alligators?
Consumers and carnivores
What is a primary consumer?
An organism mainly herbivore that eats the producer?
Explain commensalism
When one organism is benefited and the other is not harmed nor benefited
Explain parasitism
When one organism is harmed and the other is benefited
When dogs have fleas what type of symbiosis is it and why?
Parasitism because dogs are harmed and fleas suck their blood.