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What is the definition of producer? |
Any of the plants and algae that produce oxygen and food that other animals need |
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What is the definition of consumer? |
Any animal that eats plants or eats other plant-eating animals |
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What is the definition of decomposer?
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Any of the fungi or bacteria that break down dead plants and animals into useful things like minerals and rich soil |
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What is the definition of carnivore?
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An animal that eats another animal |
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What is the definition of herbivore?
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An animal that eats plants, algae and other producers |
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What is the definition of omnivore?
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An animal that eats both plant and animal |
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What is the definition of scavenger?
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A meat-eating animal that feeds on the reamains of dead animals |
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What is the definition of predator?
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A animal that hunts other animals for food |
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What is the definition of prey?
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A living thing that is hunted for food |
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What is the definition of food chain?
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The path of the energy in food from one organism to another |
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What is the definition of food web?
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The overlapping food chains in an ecosystem |
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What is the definition of commensalism?
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A relationship betwenn two kinds of organisms that benefits without harming the other |
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What is the definition of mutualism?
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A relationship between two kinds of organisms that benefits both |
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What is the definition of parasitism?
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A relationship in which one organism lives in or on another organism and benefits from that relationship while the other organism may be harmed by it |
