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Chapter 1
Term | Definition |
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photosynthesis | the way plants use sunlight to make food |
environment | everything that surrounds a living thing |
food chain | the path of energy in the form of food going from one living thing to another |
producer | any living thing that makes, or produce, its own food |
consumer | a living thing that eats other living things |
decomposer | a living thing that breaks down dead plants and animals |
herbivore | an animal that eats mostly plants |
carnivore | an animal that eats other animals |
omnivore | an animal that eats both plants and animals |
food web | a way of showing how food chains in any place are linked together |
compete | to try to get the same thing that others need or want |
microorganism | any kind of living thing that is too small to be seen with just our eyes |
bacteria | any of the smallest kinds of microorganism |
protist | a kind of microorganism larger than bacteria |
fungus | a plantlike living thing that breaks down dead plants and animals |
What do plants make? | Plants make food |
Three parts of a plant | Roots, stems, leaves |
Animals can make their own food. True or false? | False |
Animals need energy to live. True of false? | True |
Name the order of living things. | Producer, Consumer, Decomposers |
Where do herbivores get their energy? | Plants |
What job do decomposers have? | They pass materials from dead plants to the soil. |
How are bacteria and protists alike? | They are both microorganisms. |