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Grade 5 Unit A Ch 4
Scott Foresman 5th Science Unit A Ch 4 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Community | All the populations living together in one area. |
Habitat | The place where a species lives. |
Ecosystem | All the living and nonliving parts in an area. |
niche | The role of a species in an ecosystem. |
Producer | An organism that uses sunlight to make sugar from water and carbon dioxide. |
population | All of the members of one species that live in the same area. |
energy pyramid | A diagram that compares the amount of energy available at each position, or level, in the feeding order. |
Scavenger | An animal that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms. |
Photosynthesis | The process by which plants use sunlight to make sugar from water and carbon dioxide. |
ecology | The study of the relationships among living and nonliving parts of an area. |
Consumer | An organism that consumes other organisms for food. |
food web | A combination of all the food chains in a community. |
decomposer | An organism that helps to break down and decay dead organisms and the wastes of living organisms. |