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chapter 5.2
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- 1What are predators?A predator is an animal that eats another animal.
- 2What is a prey?A prey is an animal that is eaten by another animal.
- 3What is a food chain?A food chain is the flow of energy from organism to organism in a series of feeding relationship.
- 4What is a food web?A food web is a number of food chain combined.
- 5What is a producer?A producer is an organism able to manufacture its own food;plants are producer organisms.
- 6What are consumers?Consumers are organisms that must eat other organisms to get energy and nutrients they need, Animals are consumer organisms.
- 7What are decomposes?Decomposes are organisms that get the energy by breaking down dead matter and waste products.
- 8What are Carnivores?Carnivores is a consumer that eats another animal, for eg; t-Rex, lion, tiger, cheetah and a shark.
- 9What is a Herbivore?Herbivore is an animal that eats only plants, for eg; a giraffe, sheep, cow and a zebra.
- 10What is a Omnivore?A omnivore is a organism that eats both plants and animals, eg; people, bears pigs and hens.
- 11What are competitors?Competitors are organisms that have the same food source and live in the same habitat.
- 12What is chlorophyll?Chlorophyll is the chemicals in plants that traps energy from the sun and gives plant their green color.
- 13What is an Apex predator?An apex predator is a predator that has no natural predators except humans.
- 14What is photosynthesis?Photosynthesis is the process used by plants to make their own food.
- 15What is a primary consumer?A primary consumer is a consumer that only eats plants, algae and other producers.
- 16What is a secondary consumer?A secondary consumer is a consumer that eats a primary consumer.
- 17What is tertiary consumer?A tertiary consumer is a consumer that eats a secondary consumer.
- 18What is the main source of energy?The main source of energy is the sun because every food chain starts with the sun.
- 19What is a plague?Unusually large things of an organism and they are causing damage to the environment
- 20What is a scavenger?A scavenger is an animal that finds dead animals or plants that eat them.
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