ecosystems

Question 1

What consists of all the living organisms and their environment?

Answer 1

Ecosystem

Question 2

What is the nonliving part of an ecosystem?

Answer 2

Environment

Question 3

Each living member of an ecosystem is what?

Answer 3

An individual

Question 4

What consists of all the organisms of the same species?

Answer 4

Population

Question 5

What includes all the different species?

Answer 5

Community

Question 6

A specific job

Answer 6

Niche

Question 7

What is a producer?

Answer 7

Something able to make their own food

Question 8

What depends on producers?

Answer 8

Everything

Question 9

What is a consumer?

Answer 9

Something that depends on producers;must eat for energy

Question 10

What is a herbivore?

Answer 10

Plant - eaters

Question 11

What are carnivores?

Answer 11

Flesh - eaters

Question 12

What are omnivores?

Answer 12

Both plant & flesh eaters

Question 13

What is a scavenger?

Answer 13

They eat things that have already died

Question 14

What is a decomposer?

Answer 14

They help break down dead things & waste

Question 15

What is a food chain?

Answer 15

Transfer of energy & nutrients through a community

Question 16

What is a predator?

Answer 16

Any animal that hunts and eats other animals

Question 17

What is an animal that a predator hunts?

Answer 17

Prey

Question 18

What consists of several food chains linked together?

Answer 18

Food web

Question 19

What occurs when two or more organisms are trying to use the same resource?

Answer 19

Competition

Question 20

What is adaptation?

Answer 20

Any special characteristic or skill that helps a living thing survive

Question 21

What mimics another living thing[look alike]?

Answer 21

Mimicry

Question 22

What does it mean to move to a different ecosystem?

Answer 22

Migrate