Ecosystems | Plants and Energy | Animals and Energy | Animals and Energy - Continued... | Food Chains and Webs |
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What is an ecosystem
All of the non-living and living things in an environment and how they interact.
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What is carbon dioxide
Plants use this gas from the air.
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What is a consumer
A living thing that gets energy by eating plants and other animals.
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What is a carnivore
A consumer that eats other consumers
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What is a food chain
The flow of energy through a community
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What are non-living things
Rocks, soil, water, and sunlight.
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What is chlorophyll
The green substance found in plants that traps energy from the sun and give plants their green color.
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What is a herbivore
A consumer that eats plants
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What is an omnivore
A consumer that eats both plants and other consumers
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What is a food web
All of the food chains in a community
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What is a habitat
A place where all plants and animals live.
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What is photosynthesis
Plants produce sugar during this process.
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What is a scavenger
Animals that eat dead animals
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What is a decomposer
A consumer that breaks down the bodies of dead plants and animals into minerals and nutreients.
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What is a predator
These get the energy they need to survive by hunting and killing prey.
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What are non-living things
Birds, Humans, Foxes, Plants, and Trees
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What is a producer
A livingthing that uses sunlight to make sugar and energy.
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What is a decomposer
These are helpful to farmers and gardeners because they fertilize the soil
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What is a herbiwore
A grasshopper, a gopher, and a zerba
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What is prey
The animals that predators hunt
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What are ways people can destroy an ecosystem
Deforestation, Overfishing, Pollution, and Hunting
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What are tiny h oles on the bottom of leaves
This lets air in and out, and waste out of the leaf
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What is a carnivore
An owl, spider, weasel, and badger.
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What is an omnivore
A squirrel, a crow, and a human.
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What is a pesticude
This chemical that is used to kill harmful insects, can affect other animals in a food chain.
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