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Ecosystem
Ecosystme
Term | Definition |
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ecosystem | little community of plant and animals that interact with their environments in order to survive |
habitat | the place or natural condition in which a plant or animal lives |
producers | organism that use sunlight directly to make food (photosynthesis) |
examples of producers | trees, planets, and grass |
consumers | anything that eats |
examples of consumers | humans, snakes |
decomposers | breaks down decomposing matter |
examples of decomposers | fungi and bacteria |
all living things need ____ to survive | energy |
sunlight | source of energy for almost all living things |
4 types of consumers | herbivores, carnivores, omnivore, savenger |
herbivores | plant eater (horse, rabbit, cow) |
carnivores | meat eater - owl, lion |
omnivore | eats both plants and meat - humans, bear |
scavenger | feeds on the bodies of dead animals - cockroach |
predator | eats prey - lion chases and eats a rabbit - the lion is the predator |
prey | what is eaten - lion chases and eats a rabbit - the rabbit is the prey |
competition | struggle between organism after the same resource |
two types of ecosystems | terrestrial and aquatic |
terrestrial ecosystems | land based organism |
aquatic ecosystem | water based organism |
two types of aquatic ecosystem | fresh water and salt water |
fresh water | lake, pond, and river |
salt water | ocean |
major difference in two aquatic ecosystem | salt |