Chapter 9 Interactions of Living Things

An animal that hunts other animals for food

• omnivore

• consumer

• predator

• prey

The living components of an ecosystem

• producer

• biotic

• abiotic

• food chain

Break down and absorb nutrients from decaying organisms

• prey

• ecosystems

• consumers

• decomposers

An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal

• producer

• consumer

• predator

• prey

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Organisms that cannot make their own food. They eat other organisms to get energy.

• consumer

• predator

• prey

• omnivore

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Animals that feed on herbivores, the primary consumers in a food web.

• tertiary consumers

• primary consumers

• decomposers

• secondary consumers

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All of the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with one another.

• food web

• food chain

• ecosystem

• consumers

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The non-living components or factors in an environment.

• biotic

• omnivore

• prey

• abiotic

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Layer of rock or soil that remains below the freezing point of water.

• permafrost

• food chain

• tertiary consumer

• Lamons

An organism that can make its own food using sunlight and carbon dioxide.

• biotic man

• producer

• consumer

• Wish I could do this so I wouldn't get hungry!

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