Interdependence Vocabulary

What is an Ecosystem?

• a living thing

• a nonliving thing

• a community made up of living and nonliving things in their natural environment.

• a behavior near or with something

What is an organism?

• a behavior in, near, or with something

• a living thing

• a nonliving thing

• a community made up of living and nonliving things in their natural environment.

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What is an interaction?

• a living thing

• a community made up of living and nonliving things in their natural environment.

• a nonliving thing

• Any behavior in, near, or with something

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Nonliving things do not grow, need food, or reproduce. Check the answers that are nonliving things:

• sunlight

• plants

• animals

• temperature

• water

Living things grow, change, produce waste, reproduce, and die. Some examples of living things are organisms such as, check the answers that are living:

• fungi

• bacteria

• water and wind

• air

• soil

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Animals that eat only plants are:

• Omnivores

• Herbivores

• Carnivores

Animals that eat plants and animals

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

Animals that eat only meat

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

A type of carnivore that catches and eats other animals

• Omniovre

• Predator

• Prey

• Carnivore

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The animals that predators catch and eat are:

• Prey

• Herbivores

• Predators

• Omnivores