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Mrs. Bekoff - Eco.
Ecosystems - Chapter 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Food Chain | organisms/plants that use the sun's energy to make their own food. |
| Predators | Animals that kill and eat other animals for food |
| Prey | Animals that other animals hunt for food |
| Food Chain | A series of organism through which energy is passed |
| Food Web | A system of interlocking food chains |
| Decomposers | Organisms that break down the dead bodies of other organisms. They are the last step of the food chain and are too small to see without a microscope |
| Adapt | Go through changes that make them fit in better with the environment around them. |
| Photosynthesis | Process when plants use water, carbon dioxide and energy from the sun to make sugar |
| Consumers | A living thing that eats another living thing |
| Herbivores | A living creature that eats only plants |
| Omnivores | A living creature that eats a wide variety of plants and animals |
| Symbiosis | A partnership between living things |
| Carnivores | A living creature that is only or mostly a meat eater |
| Mutualism | A kind of symbiosis in which both partners benefit |
| Parasites | An organism that lives in or on another organism (the host) and benefits by taking nutrients from them |
| Parasitism | A kind of symbiosis in which one partner benefits and then other is harmed |
| Scavenger | An animal that consumes dead animals, but does not kill the animal itself |
| Host | The partner that is used as a source of food by the parasite |
| Commensalism | One partner benefits, the other is not helped or harmed |
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