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Chapter 6
Notes
Question | Answer |
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Ecosystem | Is all living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions. |
Habitat | A place that provides all the things an organisms needs to live. |
Biotic | A Living thing |
Abiotic | A nonliving thing |
FOOD CHAIN | is a series of steps showing how energy moves from one biotic factor |
FOOD WEBS | is diagram of many food chains |
SYMBIOSIS | is a long term relationship between two organisms |
Herbivores | only eat plants |
carnivores | only eat animals |
omnivores | eat plant and animals |
scavenders | fest on dead animals |
population | a group of one speices living in a certian area |
community | different populations in an area |
decomposers | get energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms |
parasites | live inside or outside another organism taking nutrients from that organism |
niche | the role that an organism has in an ecosystem |
carrying capasity | the number of organisms that can live in a habitat |
predator | the one that hunts and eats other animals |
prey | the one that gets hunted and eaten |
producers | make their own food for energy |
consumers | can’t make their own food and get energy from other producers of comsumers |