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5th Grade
01/26/2006

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What is photosynthesis?
Definition
When an organism uses sunlight to make sugar from water to carbon dioxide.
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True or false?
Plants are the only organisms that ca carry out photosynthesis.
Definition
False. Single-celled origanisms do too.
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What is a producer?
Definition
An origanism that uses sunlight to make sugar from water an carbon dioxide.
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True or false?
Plants produce oxygon during photosynthesis.
Definition
True.
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What is a consumer?
Definition
An organism that consumes other organisms for food.
Term
Howler monkeys are herbivores because they eat only what?
Definition
plants










plants
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Kinkajous are known as omnivores beacuse they eat what?
Definition
fruit,honey,insects and other small animals
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what does a scavenger feed on?
Definition
the bodies of recently dead organisms
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Is a bush dog a scavenger?
Definition
yes
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Does a decompser come before or after a scavenger?
Definition
after,these fungi,for example,can decay a dead animal and break down the waste of live animals,giving nutrients to the soil for plants to grow.
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What do consumers depend on?
Definition
all organisms that depend on other organisms for food.
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Where do carnivores get their energy?
Definition
from eating other consumers.
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Is a caterpiller a herbivore?
Definition
Yes because it only eats leaves which are plants.
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Is a macaw a herbivore, canivore, or an Omnivore?
Definition
A herbivore.
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