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ecosystem - Answer-all the living and non living things that interact in an area ecology - Answer-the study of how living things interact with each other and their environment predation - Answer-An interaction in which one organism kills another for food EX: FISH predator - Answer-the orga...

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Earth Systems Exam Study Guide
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ecosystem - Answer-all the living and non living things that interact in an area

ecology - Answer-the study of how living things interact with each other and their
environment

predation - Answer-An interaction in which one organism kills another for food EX: FISH

predator - Answer-the organism that does the killing in predation EX: SHARK

prey - Answer-an organism that is killed in predation EX: ALBATROSS

producer - Answer-organism that obtains energy by making its own food EX: PLANTS

consumer - Answer-An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms EX:
ANIMALS

decomposer - Answer-An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms and
returns the raw materials to the environment EX: FUNGUS

herbivore - Answer-A consumer that eats only plants EX: KOALA

omnivore - Answer-A consumer that eats both plants and animals EX: BEAR

carnivore - Answer-A consumer that eats only animals EX: LION

scavenger - Answer-A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms EX:
HYENA

food chain - Answer-A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains
energy EX: ANIMALS EATING OTHER ANIMALS

food web - Answer-the pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem

system - Answer-A group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements or
parts that function together as a whole to accomplish a goal

4 parts of the earth system - Answer-biosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, atmosphere

carbon cycle - Answer-the building block for the matter that makes up the bodies of
living things

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