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environment
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | All living and nonliving things that interact in an area |
| Enviornment | Everything that surrounds and effects every living thing |
| Organic matter | The remains of plants and animals |
| Consumer | An animal that gets energy by eating other animals and plants |
| Producer | An organism that makes its own food |
| Temperate Zone | An area of earth where the temperature rarely gets very hot or very cold |
| Carnivore | An animal that eats only other animals |
| Omnivore | An animal that eats plants and animals |
| Herbivore | A plant eating animal |
| Predator | An animal that hunts other animals for food |
| Prey | An animal that is hunted for food by another animal |
| Food Web | When two or more food chains overlap |
| Scavenger | An animal that feeds on the remains of dead animals |
| Decomposer | A living thing that breaks down the remains of dead animals |
| Adaption | A physical feature or behavior that helps a living thing survive |
| Mimicry | An adaption that allows an animal to protect itself by looking like another kind of animal or like a plant |
| Niche | The role a plant or animal plays in its habitat |
| Species | A group of living things that produces living things of the same kind |
| Extinct | When the last member of a species has died |
| Era | A major division of time defined by events that took place during that time |
| Fossil | The preserved traces and remains of an organism that lived long ago |