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5th chap 4A
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ecosystem | all the living and nonliving parts in an area |
| ecology | the study of the relationshiips anmong living and nonliving parts of an area |
| habitat | the place where a species lives |
| niche | the role of a species in an ecosystem |
| population | all the members of one species that live in the same area |
| community | all the populations livign together in one area |
| photosynthesis | the process by which plants use sunlight to make sugar from water and carbon dioxide |
| producer | an organism that uses sunlight to make sugar from water and carbon dioxide |
| consumer | organism that cosumes other organisms for food |
| carnivore | an organism that gets all its energy from eating other consumers |
| herbivore | an organism that gets its energy from eating producers |
| omnivore | an organism that eats both producers and consumers |
| scavenger | an animal that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms |
| decomposers | an organism that helps to break down and decay dead organisms and the wastes of living organisms |
| energy pyramid | a diagram that compares the amount of energy available at each position or level in the feeding order |
| food web | a combination of all the food chains in a community |
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