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Ecosystem Dalton

Ecosystem test for fifth grade

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Biomes are large areas or environment that share the same general climate of temperature and rainfall.
ecosystem is made up of living and nonliving things that interact with one another in a certain place.
biotic living part of the ecosystem.
abiotic nonliving part of the ecosystem.
habitat is the place where an organism lives.
population is a group of organisms of the same kind that live in a certain area.
community includes all the populations of organisms living in a certain area.
symbiosis relationship between two things that lasts for a long period of time. There are three types (parasitism, commensalism, mutualism).
parasitism when one organism must live in or on another organism to get energy, and one is harmed.
commensalism relationship between two things where one benefits and the other is neither benefited nor harmed.
mutualism relationship between two things where they both benefit.
predation is the relationship in which animals feed on other animals.
predator an organism that is hunting.
prey is the organism that is attacked.
herbivores are consumers that eat only plants.
carnivores are consumers that eat only other animals.
omnivores are consumers that eat both plants and animals.
photosynthesis the process by which plants use light energy to make sugars.
food chain the series of steps showing the flow of energy through a community.
food web the combination of all overlapping food chains in a community. It links producers, consumers, and decomposers, in an ecosystem.
producer an organism that makes its own food through photosynthesis.
consumer a living thing that obtains energy by eating other living things.
primary consumers consumers that eat only producers.
secondary consumers consumers that eat primary consumers.
decomposers a living thing that breaks down the remains of dead organisms. They get their energy from the dead plants and animals that they break down.
scavenger an animal that eats dead or rotting organisms,
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