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What is a food chain?
The pathway that represents the exchange of energy from one organism to another or simply a single pathway of direct energy transfer between organisms.
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What is a predator?
An animal that lives by killing and eating other animals.
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What is a carnivore?
An animal that eats meat only.
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What is a producer?
An organism or green plants that makes its own food using air, water, and sunlight.
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What are the three types of consumer?
The Primary consumers, Secondary consumers and the Tertiary Consumers.
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What is a food web?
A network that shows all of the different relationships or possible energy transfers between a selected group of species.
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What is a prey?
An animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food.
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What is a herbivore?
An animal that only eats plants.
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What is a consumer?
An organisms that receive energy by consuming other organisms.
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Who eats the producer?
Primary consumers
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What is parasitism?
A non-mutual relationship between species, where one species benefits at the expense of the other.
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What is the role of predators in an ecosystem?
By controlling the size of prey populations, predators help slow down the spread of disease.
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What is a omnivore?
An animal that eats both plants and meat.
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What is a decomposer?
An organisms such as bacteria and mushrooms that break down the organic matter in the dead bodies of plants and animals.
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What are the examples of decomposers?
Bacteria, moss, mushrooms, and fungi are examples of these.
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What is mutualism?
Interaction between two species where both of them are being benefited.
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What do preys eat?
Prey eats organisms or preys which are smaller than them.
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What kind of teeth do omnivores have?
Omnivores have a combination of sharp and flat teeth.
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What is the relationship between Producer, Consumer, and Decomposer?
A consumer consumes food produced by the producer. When consumer and producer die, the decomposer will decompose the bodies of the dead consumer and producer.
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What makes an owl a predator?
An owl is a nocturnal animal that hunts at night.
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What is predation?
A relationship where one organisms hunts and the other organism is killed or an act of preying other organisms.
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How do prey avoid predators?
Anti-predator adaptations are mechanisms developed through evolution that assist prey organisms in their constant struggle against predators.
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What do herbivores and carnivores have in common?
Both herbivores and carnivores are heterotrophs.
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What is the process where producers use the energy from sunlight to make their own food?
Photosynthesis
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Is a rabbit a primary consumer?
Rabbits eats producers such as grass.
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