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| In an ecoystem plants are called producers because they produce their own food. |
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| Organisms that consumeor eat other things are called Consumers. |
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| An herbiviore is an animal that only consumes plants. |
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| a carnivore is an animal that only consumes other animals |
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| anomnivore is an animal that eats both plants and animals |
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| a scavenger is an animal that only consumes dead plants or animals |
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| a predator is a carnivore that hunts and kills prey |
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| decomposers are organisems that feed off of dead plants and animals |
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| the path of the suns energy takes as it passes from producers to consumers is called a food chain |
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| a food web is the relation ship between all of the diffrent food chains in one particular ecosystem |
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| balance means that all the living and non living parts of the enviroment are working the way they are supposed to work |
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| a land fill is a huge hole dug in the ground into wich tash is dumped |
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| deforsation happens when huge areas of forest are cut down to make room for farms,houses,and/ or roads |
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| brief 3 how an ecosystem changes |
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| when an animal is endangered, it means that there is a good chance that the species will die out . when an animal is extinct , it means that there are no more of that species alive on that planet. |
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