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Ecosystem Week 3
Question | Answer |
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The process by which the characteristics of a species change over many generations in response to the environment. | adaptation |
An organism, usually an animal, that kills another organism for food. | predator |
An organism that is hunted and eaten by another organism. | prey |
the process in which plants and some other organisms use the energy in sunlight to make food. | photosynthesis |
a green pigment that traps energy from the sun. | chlorophyll |
The relationship between two organisms or species that live together in an environment. | symbiosis |
An organism that is infected by a parasite. | host |
An organism that lives in or on another organism (the host) and obtains nourishment from the host but provide nothing back to that host. | parasite |
All the living and nonliving things that surround an organism. | environment |
A natural material in or on Earth’s crust or atmosphere of potential use to humans. | resource |