Ecosystem Vocab Review

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What is an ecosystem?

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A collection of organisms that make up a community as well as all of the nonliving parts of the environment.

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What do we call organisms that eat both plants and animals?

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Omnivores.

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What happens to the shrew population if the snowshoe hare is removed from the food web?

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The shrew population would decrease due to being the only hawk food source.

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What is a carnivore?

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A type of consumer that kills and eats other consumers.

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What is a species?

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A unique type of organism.

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What is a producer in an ecosystem?

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An organism that makes its own food, typically through photosynthesis.

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What is a herbivore?

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An organism that only eats plants.

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What is a food web?

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A complex network of feeding relationships among organisms in an ecosystem.

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What role do decomposers play in an ecosystem?

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They break down dead organisms and recycle nutrients back into the soil.

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What is a habitat?

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The natural environment where an organism lives.