Ecological Interactions & Feeding Relationships

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What is a producer?

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A producer is an organism, typically a plant, that makes its own food using energy from sunlight through the process of photosynthesis.

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What is photosynthesis?

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Photosynthesis is the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods with the help of chlorophyll.

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What is a scavenger?

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A scavenger is a consumer that eats dead animals that have already been killed by other animals; it does not recycle nutrients.

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What happens to prey numbers when predator numbers decrease?

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When predator numbers decrease, prey numbers increase because fewer of them are being consumed.

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What is a carnivore?

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A carnivore is an animal that primarily eats other animals.

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What is an herbivore?

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An herbivore is an animal that primarily eats plants.

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What is a food chain?

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A food chain is a linear sequence that shows how energy and nutrients flow from one organism to another in an ecosystem.

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Where does the energy start for all living things in a food chain?

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The energy starts from the Sun.

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What is a niche?

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A niche is the role or function of an organism or species within an ecosystem, including its habitat, resource use, and interactions with other organisms.

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What is natural selection?

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Natural selection is the process by which organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.