Ecosystems Vocabulary

All the living and nonliving things that interact with each other in an area?

• Biome

• Ecosystem

• Community

• Population

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Which of these do plants need to take in, to make food?

• meat

• sugar

• carbon dioxide

• oxygen

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This is what plants produce (and why they are so important)!

• Oxygen

• fruits

• vegetables

• herbs

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Photosynthesis is...

• A way to convert light energy to heat energy.

• The process of plants breaking down and dying.

• The process that producers use to make food from carbon dioxide and water.

• The process that producers use to make food from nutrients and oxygen.

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A producer is...

• not important to an ecosystem.

• mostly predators.

• mostly plants.

• important for breaking down dead matter.

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A consumer is...

• something that eats other things.

• something that makes its own food.

• something that breaks down dead matter.

• someone at a store buying food.

The process that breaks down food into simple materials that an animal's body can use is called...

• decomposition

• digestion

• circulation

• respiration

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Bacterias are usually

• Consumers

• Producers

• Decomposers

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Composting means...

• throwing away your trash.

• Recycling plastic bottles.

• mixing decaying matter with soil.

• gardening.

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Which of these is NOT a decomposer?

• fungi

• bacteria

• some insects

• snakes