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ecosystems
Question | Answer |
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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 |