Traits and Food Webs

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What is an ecosystem?

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All living and nonliving things and their interactions in an area.

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What is an offspring?

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A child or offshoot from a parent.

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What are learned behaviors?

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Behaviors that are acquired from experience or learned from parents.

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What is a structure in biology?

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A body part that does a certain 'job' for an organism.

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What is a decomposer?

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An organism that breaks down dead plants and animals.

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What is a food chain?

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A sequence that shows how energy and nutrients flow from one organism to another.

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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 is a producer?

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

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What are inherited traits?

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Characteristics passed from parents to offspring through genes.

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What is mimicry?

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When one organism resembles another for protection or other advantages.