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5th Grade Ecosystems
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| All the living and nonliving parts in an area | ecosystem |
| The study of the relationships among living and nonliving parts of an area | ecology |
| What are three nonliving parts of the ecosystem? | Water, sunlight, and temperature |
| The place where a species lives | habitat |
| The role of a species in an ecosystem | niche |
| All the members of one species that live in the same area | population |
| All the populations living together in one area | community |
| The process by which plants use sunlight to make sugar | photosynthesis |
| A living thing that makes it own food using sunlight | producer |
| A living thing that eats other living things for food | consumer |
| Living thing that eat only plants for energy | herbivore |
| Consumer that only eats other consumers for food | carnivore |
| Consumer that eats both plants and animals | omnivore |
| Animal that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms | scavenger |
| organism that helps to break down and decay dead organisms and the wastes of living organisms | decomposer |
| Pictures scientists use to show how energy and nutrients pass from one organism to another in an ecosystem | food chains |
| Compares the amount of energy available at each level in the feeding order | energy pyramid |
| Combination of all the food chains in a community | food web |
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