Terms 1
An organism that gets energy from eating another organism.
What is a consumer?
An animal that is hunted for food.
What is prey?
A single living thing.
What is an organism?
An organism that hunts and feeds on another animal.
What is a predator?
The process where plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to produce sugar and release oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
An animal that gets energy by eating only other animals.
What is a carnivore?
An animal that gets energy by eating both plants and other animals.
What is an omnivore?
An animal that gets energy by eating only plants.
What is a herbivore?
Features that help identify something
What are characteristics?
An interconnected set of food chains.
What is a food web?
The space, conditions, and all the living and nonliving things around an organism.
What is the environment?
Coloring or other physical characteristics that help an organism to blend it with its surroundings.
What is camouflage?
An inherited trait that becomes more common by helping individuals that have it to survive and reproduce.
What is an adaptation?
An organism that uses sunlight to make its own food for energy.
What is a producer?
All the living and nonliving things in an area and the interactions among them.
What is an ecosystem?