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ecosystem notes
Question | Answer |
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Animals that cannot make their own food, and get their energy by eating plants and other animals | Consumer |
One organism in and environment | Individual |
All non-living things in an ecosystem | abiotic factors |
Plants that produce energy from the sun | Producers |
All living things in an ecosystem | biotic factors |
A community and its physical environment | Ecosystem |
Microorganisms, termites, worms, fungi that get the energy they need by breaking down dead matter | Decomposer |
A combination of all the food chains in a community | Food Web |
Individuals of the same kind living in the same environment | Population |
Includes different populations | Community |
A diagram of how energy and nutrients pass among organisms in an ecosystem | food chain |
What happends to a living thing when it dies in a forest? | Decomposers break it down and the nutrients are returned to the soil. |
What benefit do decomposers provide for an ecosystem? | They break down dead plants and animals |
Animals that eat only plants | herbivores |
Animals that eat only animals | carnivores |
Animals that eat both animals and plants | omnivores |
Animals that hunt and kill other animals for food | predators |
Animals that are hunted and killed as food for other animals | prey |
An organism that spends a significant portion of its life in or on a living host organism usually causing harm to the host without immediately killing it | Parasite |
Organisms or cells that serve as a home or source of food for a parasite | Host |