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Cole Ecosystem-vocab
Cole Ecosystem vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Ecosystem | all living and nonliving things that interact in an area |
Environment | everything that surrounds and effects every living thing |
Organic Matter | the remains of plants and animals |
Consumer | an animal gets energy by eating other animals and plants |
Producer | an organism that makes its own food |
Temperate Zone | An area of Earth where the temperature rarely gets very hot or very cold |
Carnivore | an animal that eats only other animals |
Herbivore | an plant eating animal |
Predator | an animal that hunts other animals for food |
Prey | an animal that is hunted for food by another animal |
Food Web | When two or more food chains overlap |
Scavenger | an animal that feeds on the remains of dead animals |
Decomposer | a living thing that breaks down the remains of dead animals |
Adaptation | a physical feature or a behavior that helps a living thing survive |
Mimicry | an adaptation that allows an animal to protect itself by looking like another kind of animal or like a plant |
Niche | the role a plant or animal plays in its habitat |
Species | a group of living things that produces living things of the same kind |
Extinct | when the last member of a species has died |
Era | a MAJOR division of time defined by events that took place during that time |
Fossil | the preserved traces and remains of an organism that lived long ago |