Unit 8 Relationship among living things | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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Roles of living things in the environment, Feeding relationships, Energy in an ecosystem, Interdependence among living things

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What is a herbivore?

A herbivore is an animal that eats plant material, for example leaves, grass or algae, for the main part of its diet.

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What is a producer?

A plant that uses chlorophyll to trap energy from the sun to make its own food.

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What is a carnivore?

An organism that eats meat / takes its energy and nutrients from a diet of animal tissue.

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What is an omnivore?

An animal that has the ability to eat and survive on both plant and animal matter.

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What is a decomposer?

Decomposers are organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms.

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What are scavengers?

Scavengers are animals that consume dead organisms that have died from causes other than predation.

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What is a food chain?

A food chain shows how plants and animals get their energy.

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What do food chains always begin with?

A producer.

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What is a food web?

A series of (many) food chains linked together.

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How is energy lost in an ecosystem?

The energy may be lost to the surroundings as heat or as animal waste.

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How will plants be affected if there are no decomposers on Earth?

Plants cannot grow well in soil without enough nutrients.

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What will happen if there are no decomposers on Earth?

Dead matter and animal waste will accumulate. The dead matter will not be broken down into simpler substances.

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What are the three types of symbiosis?

Parasitism, Mutualism, Commensalism

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What is competition?

When more than one organism tries to make use of the same limited resource.

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What is predation?

When one animal captures and feeds on another animal.

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What are the names of the two types of organisms in predation?

Predator and prey.

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