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Ecosystems lesson 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Predation | when one organism hunts and eats another |
| Predator | the animal that hunts and eats another animal |
| Prey | the animal that is being hunted |
| Decomposer | an organism that breaks down dead or decaying materials |
| Producer | a green plant that makes its own energy |
| Consumer | an organism that gets its energy from eating other organisms, does not make its own energy |
| Herbivore | eats plants |
| Carnivore | eats meat |
| Omnivore | eats meat and plants |
| Energy pyramid | shows the amount of energy flowing from one organism to the next in a food chain |
| Food chain | shows the transfer of energy as organisms feed on other organisms |
| Food web | shows how food chains are connected to each other because they share the same food |
| symbiosis | organisms that are working together over a long period of time and have a relationship |
| Carbon cycle | cycle where carbon is cycled through the ecosystem |
| Nitrogen cycle | cycle where nitrogen is cycled through the ecosystem |