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Food Chains
Unit 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Carnivore | Eats meat |
| Omnivore | Eats both plants and meat |
| Herbivore | Eats plants |
| Scavenger | Eats already dead organisms |
| Decomposer | Breaks down dead organisms |
| Consumer | Eats other organisms |
| Producer | Makes its own energy (food) |
| The source of all energy | The Sun |
| Biotic | Living things |
| Abiotic | Non-living things |
| Arrows in a food chain | The flow of energy |
| Ecosystem | A community of living and non-living things in their natural environment |
| Examples of abiotic factors | Sunlight, soil, air, water |
| Examples of biotic factors | animals, plants, bugs, and people |
| 3 things plants need for photosynthesis. | sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water |
| What do people and animals breathe in | Oxygen |
| What people and animals breathe out... | Carbon Dioxide |
| What plants release during photosynthesis | Oxygen |
| What plants take in for photosynthesis | Carbon dioxide, sunlight, and water |
| Overpopulation | An increase in the number of organisms which can have direct and indirect effects on an ecosystem |
| Interdependency | When elements within an ecosystem depend on each other to survive |
| Food Web | Two or more overlapping food chains |
| Predator | An animal that hunts another animal for food |
| Example of a decomposer | Mushroom, fungus, bacteria |
| A biotic organism depending on another biotic organism? | A hummingbird sucking nectar from a flower |
| A biotic organism depending on an abiotic organism | A whale swims in water |