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What is an ecosystem?
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the living and nonliving things that share an environment and interact.
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What is a habitat?
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the home of a living thing.
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What is a food chain?
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a series of organisms that depend on one another for food
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What is a decomposer?
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an organism that breaks down dead plant and animal material.
example: worms and mushrooms |
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what is a food web?
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Several food chains that are connected like a web.
example: The crane eats fish, the eagle eats fish, the fish eats shrimp and lobster. The eagle eats lobster... |
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what is a producer?
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an organism that makes its own food.
example would be a plant or algae |
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what is a consumer?
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an organism that eats other organisms. All animals are consumers.
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explain the difference between
herbivores carnivores omnivores |
herbivores (herbs) plant eaters
carnivores meat eaters omnivores both |
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Most producers get their energy from...
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sunlight. producers produce their own using the sun.
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Climate is...
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the pattern of weather in a place over a long period of time. The climate of a desert is hot and dry.
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Soil is made up of
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bits of rocks and humus.
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What is Humus?
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broken-down plant and animal materials.
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What's the difference between tropical rain forest and temperate forest.
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Tropical: hot and damp with lots of rain
Temperate: less rain and cold at night |
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Which ecosystem is the largest in the world?
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the ocean
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what is adaptation?
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the structure or behavior that helps an organism survive in its environment.
structure: blubber on a walrus behavior: opossum playing dead |
