SF4#3 Flash Cards

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Title: SF4#3
Description: What is an Ecosystem?
Who do plants get energy?
How do ther living things get energy?
Whar are food chains and food webs?
Number of Cards: 16
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Author: stephenp16
Created: 2002-10-09
Tags: earth earthsciences
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    • producer
    • a living thing that uses sunlight to make sugar
    • herbivore
    • a consumer that eats plants
    • scavenger
    • an animal that eats dead animals
    • habitat
    • a place where an animal or plant lives
    • ecosystem
    • all the living and nonliving things in an environment and how they interact
    • carbon dioxide
    • a gas found in air
    • food web
    • all the food chains in a community
    • photosynthesis
    • a process by which plants change light energy from the sun and use it to make sugar
    • chlorophyll
    • the green substance found in plants that traps energy from the sun and gives plants their green color
    • consumer
    • a living thing that gets energy by eating plants and other animals
    • prey
    • the animals that predators hunt
    • decomposer
    • a consumer that puts materials from dead plants and animals back into the soil, air, and water
    • carnivore
    • a consumer that eats other consumers
    • omnivore
    • a consumer that eats both plants and other consumers
    • predator
    • an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
    • food chain
    • the flow energy through a community