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Ecosystem Week 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The process by which the characteristics of a species change over many generations in response to the environment. | adaptation |
| An organism, usually an animal, that kills another organism for food. | predator |
| An organism that is hunted and eaten by another organism. | prey |
| the process in which plants and some other organisms use the energy in sunlight to make food. | photosynthesis |
| a green pigment that traps energy from the sun. | chlorophyll |
| The relationship between two organisms or species that live together in an environment. | symbiosis |
| An organism that is infected by a parasite. | host |
| An organism that lives in or on another organism (the host) and obtains nourishment from the host but provide nothing back to that host. | parasite |
| All the living and nonliving things that surround an organism. | environment |
| A natural material in or on Earth’s crust or atmosphere of potential use to humans. | resource |