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Environment
Flashcards with terminology
Question | Answer |
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Define a consumer. | An organism that cannot make its own food and obtains energy by eating other organisms. |
Define a producer. | An organism that uses an outside source of energy like the sun to make food. |
What are the four main consumer groups? | Carnivores, Herbivores, Omnivores, and Decomposers |
What is a Carnivore? | A consumer that only eats meat from other animals. |
What is a Hervivore? | A consumer that only eats plants or producers to obtain energy. |
What is a Decomposer? | It breaks down the body of a dead organism to gain energy. |
What is a Omnivore? | A consumer that eats both plants and animals. |
How do you classify a Carnivore from a Onmivore? | Observation of the teeth. |
What diagram shows the flow of energy in a community? | Food Pyramid |
What diagram shows how an organism interacts with another? | Food Chain |
What diagram views many intersecting food chains? | Food Web |
What type of relationship is mutualism? | A symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit. |
What type of relationship is commensalism? | A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits. |
What type of relationship is parasitism? | A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits, but the other is harmed. |
When a parasite attaches to another organism, that organism is called what? | The host |
What is one example of commensalism? | The clown fish and the sea anemones. |
What is a consumer that is hunted called? | Prey |
What is a consumer that hunts and kills called? | Predator |