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A producer is usually a plant and makes its own food.
What is a producer?
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Rainforest
Desert Tundra Savanna Deciduous forest
What are four biomes?
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A producer makes its own food.
What is a producer?
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A producer
What does every food chain start with?
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Both! An ecosystem is made up of both living and non living things.
Is an ecosystem made up of living things, nonliving things, or both?
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A primary consumer eats producers. A secondary consumer eats primary consumers. A tertiary consumer eats secondary consumers.
What is a primary consumer, a secondary consumer, and a tertiary consumer?
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A consumer gets its energy from eating something else.
What is a consumer?
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The ecosystem becomes imbalanced. If a predator disappears, there may be too much of its prey remaining, and they will have to fight over resources.
What happens if one animal disappears from an ecosystem?
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A decomposer breaks organic matter down into essential nutrients.
What is a decomposer?
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The sun
Where does all energy stem from?
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A biome is a geographic area with a certain climate and other characteristics in common. More than one ecosystem may be in a biome, because in an ecosystem, everything has to interact.
What is the difference between a biome and an ecosystem?
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The group of all of ONE living species in an ecosystem; for example, a population of apple trees or a population of lions
What is a population?
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A primary consumer eats producers. Secondary consumers eat primary consumers.
What does a primary consumer eat? What does a secondary consumer eat?
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A natural disaster such as drought
Human interference Extinction of a population
How might an ecosystem become imbalanced? Give two different examples.
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The variety of life on earth.
What is biodiversity?
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