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Science vocab test 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Community | All the populations living together in one area |
| Consumer | An organism that consumes other organisms for food |
| Decomposer | An organism that helps to break down and decay dead organisms and wastes of living organisms |
| Ecology | The study of the relationship among living and non-living parts in an area. |
| Ecosystem | All the living and non-living parts in an area |
| Energy Pyramid | A diagram that compares the amount of energy available at each position, or level, in the feeding order |
| Food Web | A combination of all the food chains in a community |
| Habitat | The place where a species lives |
| Niche | The role of a species in an ecosystem |
| Photosynthesis | The process by which plants use sunlight to make sugar from water and carbon dioxide |
| Population | All of the members of one species that live in the same area |
| Producer | An organism that uses sunlight to make sugar from water and carbon dioxide |
| Scavenger | An animal that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms |
| Food Chain | Diagrams showing how energy and nutrients pass from one organism to another in an ecosystem |
| Omnivore | An animal that eats both plants and animals |
| Herbivore | An animal that eats only plants |
| Carnivore | An animal that eats only other animals |