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Ecology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is an organism that produces its own food? | a organism that can produce its own food is called Producer. Producers use most of the energy they create for themselves. |
| what is cellular respiration? | is a chemical reaction that releases the energy in glucose. |
| what is a Consumer? | an organism that cannot make their own energy. |
| what is a Primary consumer? | a organism that eats producers to get energy. |
| what is a Herbivore? | a primary consumer. or a plant eater. |
| What is a secondary consumer? | A secondary consumer is the second order of consumer. it may be a carnivore, omnivore, or a scavenger. |
| what is a third order consumer, or a tertiary consumer? | an organism that eats the secondary consumer. may be a scavenger, omnivore,or a carnivore |
| what is a omnivore? | a omnivore is a organism that eats plants and animals. |
| what is a carnivore? | Carnivore is a organism that eats meat. |
| What is a scavenger | a scavenger is a consumer that eats consumers that have olready died. |
| what is a Decomposer? | a decomposer is a organizm that breaks down dead organic matter so that nutrients can be reused by plants. |
| what is a food chain? | the transfer of energy from the sun to primary consumer to secondary consumer to tertiary producer. |
| what is a food web? | are interconnected food chains they show the feeding relationships in an ecosystem. |
| what is a ecosystem? | is a system in which living things interact whith themselves and their non living environment in such a way that the entire system is perpetuated. |