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ecosystems
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is an ecosystem? | includes all the organisms in an area and the environment in witch they live |
| what is an herbivore? | an animal that eats plants or other producers |
| what is an carnivore? | it eats mainly other animals |
| what is an omnivore? | eats both plants and animals |
| what is a food chain? | the transfer of food energy between organisms |
| what is a decomposer? | a consumer that gets food energy by breaking down the remains ofdead organisyms |
| what is a food web? | shows the relatoinships among different food chains |
| what is an energy piramid? | shows that each level of a food chain passed on to the next level |
| what is a predator? | what carnivores are called |
| what is prey? | the animals carnivores eat |
| what is a habitat? | place where a population lives |
| what is a population? | a group of living organisyms of the same kind living in the same place |
| what is a community? | all populations in a habitat |
| what is a terrestrial ecosystem? | Land |
| what is a aqutic ecosystem? | water |
| what is biosphire? | all of the ecosystems on the entire planet |