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What is an heterotroph? Give examples.
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Heterotrophs eat other organisms for food e.g. people, animals, bacteria, and fungi.
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What is a producer? Give examples.
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Producer is another name for autotroph. Ex are: cyanobacteria, plants, algae, phytoplankton, chemosynthetic bacteria, etc.
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What is symbiosis?
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Symbiosis occurs when one organism lives on or in another during a portion or all of their lives.
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What is a biome? Give an example.
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Biomes are huge ecosystems with similar plant life and precipitation e.g desert and tropical rainforest
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What is a decomposer? Give an example.
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Organisms that absorb (they have no mouth) dead decaying organisms for food e.g bacteria and fungi
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What is a predator? Give an example.
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Predators are organisms that kill and eat another animal e.g. peregrine falcons prey upon pigeons
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How do you know whether or not two organisms belong to the same species?
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Members of the same species can interbreed and produce fertile offspring. A horse and donkey are not members of the same species because they produce a mule that is sterile.
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How does primary succession differ from secondary succession?
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Primary succession begins on rock; secondary succesion begins on soil.
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What are two climate conditions that help determine a biome?
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Temperature and precipitation.
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What is the scientific name for man?
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Homo sapiens sapiens
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