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ecology and cycles of matter

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What is Ecology? The study of the interaction of living organisms with another environment
What is a Herbivore? Eats plants, first level consumer
What is a Omnivore? eats plants and meat
What is a Carnivore? eats animals (meat), second level consumer
What is a consumer? an organism that eats producers or other organisms for energy
What is a decomposer? Gets energy by breaking down remains of dead organisms and eating its nutrients
What are scavengers? an animal that feeds on the bodies of dead animals
What are producers? Make their own food (usually by using the sunlights energy to make sugar
What is a predator? organism that eats other organisms
What is prey? organism eaten by another organism
What is a habitat? the enviornment where an organism lives
what is a food web? a complex diagram showing many energy paths in a real ecosystem
What is a food chain? a diagram that shows how the energy in food molecules flows from one organism to the next
What is adaptation? a characteristic that helps an organism survive in a certain environment
What is an ecosystem? all living and nonliving things that interact in an area
Is it true or false that algae and plants need water to make food? true
Energy enters all ecosystems as _________. sunlight
The source of all food in an ecosystem is _____. producers
Bacteria and Fungi are examples of _________. decomposers
True or false Decomposers return raw material to the environment. True
What is Photosynthesis? Process that allows plants to use energy from the sun to produce food for the plant and release oxygen into the air.
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