Unit Four Vocabulary

What is a Producer?

• A person or company that creates goods or services

• A consumer of goods and services

What is a Primary Consumer?

• An organism that is at the top of the food chain

• An organism that eats producers

What is a Secondary Consumer?

• An organism that primarily feeds on primary consumers

• An organism that decomposes organic material

What is a Tertiary Consumer?

• An organism that decomposes organic material

• An organism that primarily feeds on secondary consumers

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What is a Decomposer?

• An organism that breaks down dead or decaying organisms

• A process of converting sunlight into energy

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What are Invasive Species?

• Invasive species are native organisms that help in balancing the ecosystem.

• Invasive species are non-native organisms that, when introduced to a new environment, can cause harm to the ecosystem, economy, or human health.

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What is a Food Web?

• A complex network of interconnected food chains in an ecosystem.

• A chart that shows the population of different species in an ecosystem.

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What is a Food Chain?

• A sequence of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food

• A type of food packaging

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What is a Habitat?

• A habitat is the natural environment in which an organism lives, including all living and non-living factors that affect it.

• A habitat is a type of food that animals eat.

What is an Ecosystem?

• A community of living organisms and their interactions with their environment

• A random collection of plants and animals

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