Chapter 5 - Ecosystems

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What is a decomposer?

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A living thing that breaks down waste and dead plant and animal matter.

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What do we call all the populations living in the same place?

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A community.

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How do foxes get energy in a food chain?

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From eating rabbits.

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What is an example of an interaction between a living part and a nonliving part in an ecosystem?

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A worm using the soil as shelter.

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How does a drought change an ecosystem?

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Plants die from lack of water.

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What is an ecosystem?

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A community of living things and their environment.

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What is a producer?

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A living thing that makes its own food, like plants.

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What is a consumer?

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A living thing that eats other living things for energy.

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What is a habitat?

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The place where a living thing lives.

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What is a food chain?

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A series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.