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The term for an animal that hunts down other animals.
What is a predator?
Without plants, life on Earth would become __________.
What is become extinct?
Term for an animal that eats both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
The symbiotic relationship when two species benefit from one another
What is mutualism?
The number and variety of organisms in a given area during a specific period of time.
What is biodiversity?
The environment in which an animal or lives
What is a habitat?
Almost all of the earth’s surface water is contained in
What is an ocean ecosystem?
A community of living and non-living things that interact
What is an ecosystem?
The organism if removed would destroy the food chain below
What are plants?
Non-living things within an ecosystem are known as
What are abiotic factors?
A clown fish and a sea anemone’s relationship would be and example of
What is commensalism?
The back and forth evolutionary adjustments between the interacting members in an ecosystem
What is coevolution?
A dry grassland where elephants, giraffes, and lions live.
What is a savanna?
A large region characterized by a specific type of climate, certain plants and animals
What is a biome?
The term for an organism that breaks down the remains of dead plants and animals
What is a decomposer?
Term for an animal that only eats other animals
What is carnivore?
The source of energy that supports life in a terrarium
What is sunlight?
Characteristics that develop as an organism interacts with its environment
What is acquired traits?
Term for an organism that can make it’s own food (ex. plants)
What is a producer?
The process by which a green plant makes its own food
What is photosynthesis?
The cycle which nitrogen gas is changed into forms of nitrogen that plants can use
What is the nitrogen cycle?
How a typical green plant takes in water
What is through its roots?
Animals that eat only plants
What is an herbivore?
In the food web below, the number of animals that consume the grasshopper
What is 4?
What would make a horse better adapted to escape a predator that a cow.
What is a horse has longer legs and can run faster that a cow?