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Plants/Animals
Habitats, Ecosystems, 3rd Grade
Question | Answer |
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ecosystem | All the living and nonliving things in an environment. |
community | All the LIVING things in an ecosystem. |
population | All the members of a single type of living thing in an ecosystem. |
habitat | The home of living things. |
producer | An organism such as a plant that makes its own food from water, air, and sunlight. |
consumer | An organism that eats other organisms such as producers and consumers. |
food chain | A series of organisms that depend on one another for food. |
decomposer | An organism that breaks down dead plant and animal material. |
food web | Several chains that are connected. |
energy pyramid | A diagram that shows how energy moves through an ecosystem. |
carbon dioxide and oxygen cycles | The process of passing oxygen and carbon dioxide from one population to another in both water and land habitats. |
predator | An animal that hunts other animals for food. |
prey | The animals that the predators eat. |
scavenger | An animal that gets its food from dead organisms. |
parasite | An organism that lives on or inside another organism or host. |
host | An organism that a parasite lives on or inside. |