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TEKS 5.9A - environmental interactions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| All the living and nonliving things and all of their interactions in an area. | Ecosystem |
| Having a metabolism, life processes, was once alive or follows a life cycle | Living |
| a part of the ecosystem that is not living, ex - sunlight, objects that have never had any basic needs | Nonliving |
| A living thing | Organism |
| An inherited characteristic that provides an advantage | Adaptation |
| An organism that uses sunlight to produce its own food | Producer |
| An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms | Consumer |
| overlapping paths of food energy from the Sun to producers to a series of consumers in an ecosystem | food web |
| describes the life cycle of an insect whose form changes entirely at each stage of its life cycle | complete metamorphosis |
| all organisms of the same kind living in an area at the same time | population |
| the stages of growth an organism goes through | life cycle |
| the purpose of any specific structure | function |
| the physical appearance of an organism | structure |
| to work together; to act on each other | interaction |
| the continuous exchange of gases between plants and animals | carbon dioxide - oxygen cycle |
| describes the life cycle of an organism whose form does not change very much during its life | incomplete metamorphosis |
| An organism that consumes dead or nonliving biomass without need for internal digestion | Decomposer |
| a long-term relationship between two different kinds of organisms that benefits one or both | symbiotic relationship |
| Gets energy only from eating animals | Carnivore |
| Gets energy only from plants | herbivore |
| Gets energy by eating plants and animals | omnivore |