Ecosystem Interactions Vocabulary

Ecosystem is .....

• a home environment for plants and animals or other organisms.

• the order of events in an ecosystem, where one living organism eats another organism, and later that organism is consumed by another larger organism.

• all the living and nonliving things in an environment and how they interact.

• the flow of nutrients and energy from one organism to another

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A habitat is .....

• a home environment for plants and animals or other organisms.

• the order of events in an ecosystem, where one living organism eats another organism, and later that organism is consumed by another larger organism.

• all the living and nonliving things in an environment and how they interact.

• the flow of nutrients and energy from one organism to another

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What is chlorophyll?

• the flow of energythrough a community.

• a living thing that uses sunlight to make sugar.

• the process in which green plants use sunlight to make their own food

• The green substance found in plants thar traps light energy from the sun.

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What is a predator?

• An animal that hunts and kills other animals for food.

• An animal that is hunted.

• An animal that eats dead animals.

• A consumer that puts materials from dead animals and plants back into the soil, air, and water.

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What is a consumer?

• An animal that hunts and kills other animals for food.

• A living thing that gets energy by eating plants and other animals.

• A living thing that uses sunlight to make sugar.

• A consumer that puts materials from dead animals and plants back into the soil, air, and water.

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What is a producer?

• An animal that hunts and kills other animals for food.

• A living thing that gets energy by eating plants and other animals.

• A living thing that produces its own food.

• A consumer that puts materials from dead animals and plants back into the soil, air, and water.

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What is a consumer?

• An animal that hunts and kills other animals for food.

• A living thing that gets energy by eating plants and other animals.

• A living thing that produces its own food.

• A consumer that puts materials from dead animals and plants back into the soil, air, and water.

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What is a decomposer?

• An animal that hunts and kills other animals for food.

• A living thing that gets energy by eating plants and other animals.

• A living thing that produces its own food.

• A consumer that puts materials from dead animals and plants back into the soil, air, and water.

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What is photosynthesis?

• the flow of energy through a community.

• a living thing that uses sunlight to make sugar.

• the process in which green plants use sunlight to make sugar as their own food

• The green substance found in plants thar traps light energy from the sun.

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What is a scavenger?

• An animal that hunts and kills other animals for food.

• A living thing that is being hunted by other animals.

• A living thing that consume decaying biomass (organic materials) such rotten meat and plants.

• A consumer that puts materials from dead animals and plants back into the soil, air, and water.

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