Life Science Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Biotic | The living things in the world |
Abiotic | The non-living things in the world |
Producer/ autotroph | A plant that makes its own food from the sun |
Consumer/ heterotroph | An animal that eats a autotroph to get energy and to survive |
Decomposer | An animal that breaks down nutrients in the soil |
Herbivore | An animal that only eats plants |
Carnivore | An animal that only eats meat |
Omnivore | An animal that eats both plants and animals |
Scavenger | An animal that feeds on dead plants or animals |
Food chain | A series of living things that show one food source to the other |
Food web | A series of food chains |
Sun's role in food chain/ web | The sun's role is to provide the autotrophs with food, which supplies all the rest of the animals with food because, the heterotrophs eat the autotrophs |
Energy pyramid | Shows the amount of energy passed onto the different levels |
Symbiosis | An interaction between two different organisms |
Mutualism | An interaction between two organisms in which both benefit from |
Commensalism | An interaction between two organisms in which one benefits and one is neither benefited or harmed |
Parasitism | An interaction between two organisms in which one is benefited and one is harmed |
Predator/ prey | A prey is an animal that is being hunted A predator is an animal that is hunting another animal |
Competition | Where organisms compete for a certain thing |
Adaptation | A character trait that a animal or plant has to survive in a particular area |
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Katelyn Ratcliff
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