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Ecosystems 2025
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What do we call all the living and nonliving things interacting in an area? | ecosystem |
| What term describes living things such as plants and animals? | organisms |
| What do we call plants and animals that live in the same place? | community |
| What word describes the place where an organism lives? | habitat |
| What do we call animals that eat only plants? | herbivores |
| What do we call animals that eat only other animals? | carnivores |
| What do we call animals that eat both plants and animals? | omnivores |
| What term describes plants that make their own food using sunlight? | producers |
| What do we call organisms that cannot make their own food? | consumers |
| What word describes organisms that break down dead plants and animals? | decomposers |
| What do we call the path of energy from one organism to another? | food chain |
| What term describes many connected food chains? | food web |
| What word means the number of organisms in an area? | population |
| What term describes the variety of living things in an ecosystem? | biodiversity |
| What do we call nonliving parts of an ecosystem like water and soil? | abiotic |
| What do we call living parts of an ecosystem? | biotic |
| What word describes animals that hunt other animals for food? | predators |
| What do we call animals that are hunted by predators? | prey |
| What term describes a change that helps an organism survive? | adaptation |
| What do we call a group of the same species living together? | species |