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Unit A Chapter 4
Ecosystems
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| All the living and non living parts in an area | Ecosystem |
| The Place where a species lives | Habitat |
| All the populations living together in an area | Community |
| All of the members of one speicies that live in the same area | Population |
| An animal that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms | Scavenger |
| An organism that consumes other organisms for food | Consumers |
| Hervivore | Eats Plants |
| Carnivore | Eats animals / meat |
| Omnivore | Eats plants and animals |
| An organism that uses sunlight to make sugar from water and carbon dioxide | Producers |
| Study of the relationship among living and non living parts of an area | Ecology |
| The role of a species in an ecosystem | Niche |
| A diagram that compares the amount of energy available at each position or level in the feeding order | Energy Pyramid |
| An organism that helps to break down and decay dead organisms and the wastes of living organisms | Decomposer |
| A combination of all the food chains in a community | Food Web |
| The process by which plants use sunlight to make sugar from water and carbon dioxide | Photosynthesis |
| What cycle describes how water evaporates, condenses into clouds, then falls to the ground as precipitation | The Water Cycle |