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n. All the living and non living things in a certain area
Example of ecosystem - involves plants and animals and how thy interact with one another |
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An animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
n. organism that preys on another organism |
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n. animal that feeds on dead matter
A person who searches through and collects items from garbage |
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| n. Any profession, occupation or job |
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| n. something kept in memory of the giver; souvenir |
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| v. To dry up, become wrikled, wilt, sag, to shrink or become smaller |
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| adj. unimportant, of little or small work |
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| v. to feel sorry for what you have done or failed to do |
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n. a being that must eventually die.
adj. fatal or causing death |
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| n. an animal that eats only the flesh of other animals |
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| n. an animal that eats only plants |
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| chipmunk, deer, raccoon, squirrel, mouse, and porcupine |
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| is the Herbivore consumer |
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| are called "Nature's Clean Up Crew" |
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are decomposers who help recycle important nutrients and help keep them moving through out food webs. This process of recycle occurs by the decomposers eating the bodies of dead plants and animals that is left over or not eaten by herbivores, or carnivores.
If this process doesn't happen the important nutrients would not reach plants and plants could not grow which will lead to other living things going hungry or starving |
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| Sheep, cows, and deer chew their food twice because |
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They cannot digest the food easily.
Therefore, after the animals swallow the food the first time it stays in their stomach for a while.
Afterwards, the food comes back up in their mouth and then they chew it again (or rechew it) and swallow it for a second time.
This process of rechewing helps to break down the food for the amimals body to absorb its energy. |
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| Meat-eating plants differ from most other plants because |
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| Plants offer Animals and Humans |
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