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Ecology & Energy
7th Grade Life Science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A place where an organism live within an ecosystem. | habitat |
| The position or role a species has in an ecosystem. The organism's "job". | niche |
| Uses sun's light to make own food. | producer |
| An organism that breaks down waste or remains of dead organisms. | decomposer |
| Any organism that eats other organisms because it cannot make its own food. | consumer |
| A consumer that only eats plants. | herbivore |
| A consumer that only eats other animals (meat). | carnivore |
| A consumer that eats both plants and animals. | omnivore |
| A visual diagram that shows the energy transfer from one organism to other using only a few producers and consumers. | food chain |
| A diagram that shows the feeding relationships and energy transfer among many different organisms in an ecosystem. | food web |
| An organism that moves into an ecosystem that is not its' original habitat. The organism can destroy plants and animals that already live in the ecosystem. | invasive species |