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13.1 vocabulary
ecology project
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ecology | study of interactions between living things and their environment |
| producer | organisms that use sunlight or other chemicals reactions to make their own food |
| photosynthesis | is a process that producers use to make their own food using energy from sunlight |
| consumers | organisms that cannot make their own food |
| protozoans | single-celled, animal-like protists, called protozoans, feed on living or dead organisms |
| herbivores | animals that only eat plants |
| carnivores | animals that only eat other animals |
| omnivores | animals that feed on other animals and plants |
| decomposers | break down dead organisms, animal droppings, leaves, and other wastes produced by living things |
| scavengers | organisms that feed on dead animals |