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Animals that Eat
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Ecosystem Roles
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An animal that hunts, kills and eats another animal is called this?

PREDATOR.

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A food chain always begins with a ____________

producer

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What are the parts of an ecosystem?

Biotic: living & Abiotic: non-living

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Plants that feed on dead animals and other plants and put nutrients back into the soil.

DECOMPOSER?

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What is the process of how plants make their own food using sunlight, water, and air (carbon dioxide) to create sugary food for energy and release oxygen for us to breathe called?

Photosynthesis

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This is the word for the animal that gets hunted, killed and eaten...

PREY

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Where a producer gets its energy.

The sun

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All of the populations that live in one area of an ecosystem together are called what?

Community

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What is an example of a human activity that impacts ecosystem.

Hunting, logging, pollution, overfishing, building, agriculture, etc.

200

Which of the following things in a pond ecosystem is abiotic?

A. Duck B. Water C. Trout D. Butterfly

B. Water

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An animal that eats or consumes other animals is called...

Carnivore

300

Make a food chain with the following: hawk, grass, snake, mouse

grass, mouse, snake, hawk

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All members of the same species is called a _______________.

Population

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What are the three levels of every food chain?

Producer, decomposer, and consumer?

300

What is one way in which plants depend on animals?

Animals give off the oxygen plants need.

400

A deer is an animal that just eats plants (producers) is called: A) Spicavore B) Migrate C) Herbivore D) Birdavore

C, Herbivore

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Many food chains joined together to show all energy transfers within an ecosystem.

Food web.

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Name 3 abiotic (non-living) components of a forest ecosystem.

Soil, water, air, rocks.

400
What role do mushrooms play in food chains?
Decomposers.
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What is a top predator? Give an example.
At the top of a food chain, the predator that has no enemies. (ex. polar bear)
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An animal that eats both plants and meat? A bear is considered this?

Omnivore

500

What do the arrows in a food web show?

Direction of energy/matter movement

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What is an ecosystem?
A biological community including all the interactions between living and non-living things in an environment.
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In the mountain caribou ecosystem, how are logging, moose and caribou linked?
Logging increases food for moose, then there are more wolves, then the wolves can access the caribou habitat through logging roads.
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In a forest, how do decomposers help other organisms survive?

They put nutrients back into the soil that plants use to grow