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What is an animal that eats plants and vegetables?
An herbivore
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What is an ecosystem??
A community of living and non-living things that work together.
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What is a living thing that can produce or make its own food?
A producer
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What is an animal that eats plants and animals?
An omnivore
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What is an abiotic factor?
The non-living parts of an organism's habitat.
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What is an animal called that is hunted by other animals?
Prey
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What is an animal that eats only meat?
A carnivore
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What is a habitat?
An area or environment where a plant or animal normally lives.
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What is a food web?
A group of connected food chains
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What shows how living things rely on each other for food and how energy is moved from one living thing to another?
A food chain
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What is an animal called that hunts and eats other animals?
A predator
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Name four abiotic factors in an ecosystem.
Sun, water, soil, oxygen
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What is an organism called that breaks down dead plants and animals?
A decomposer
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What is a biotic factor?
A living thing in an ecosystem
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What forms the base of the food web and is the first organism in a food chain?
The producers.
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