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Chapter 6 Science
Term | Definition |
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Ecosystem | Is all of the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions. |
Biotic | Means living |
Abiotic | Means nonliving |
Habitat | Is a place that provides all the things an organism needs to live |
Population | is a group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time |
Community | Different populations in an area make up a community |
Niche | is the role that an organism has in an ecosystem |
Carrying capacity | The number of organisms that can live in a habitat |
Parasites | live inside or outside an organism taking nutrients from that organism |
Symbiosis | is a long term relationship between two organisms |
food web | is a diagram of many things |
Food chain | is a series of steps showing how energy moves from one biotic factor another |
Decomposer | they get their energy from breaking down wastes and dead organisms |
Consumers | can’t make their own food and get energy from other producers of consumers |
Predator | the one that hunts and eats other animals |
Prey | the one that gets hunted and eaten |
Producers | make their own food for energy |
Herbivores | Eat only plants |
Carnivores | Eat other animals |
Omnivores | Eat plants and animals |
Scavengers | Eats dead animals |