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chapter 6
Term | Definition |
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Abiotic | It is another word for nonliving. |
Biotic | It is another word for living. |
ecosystem | It is all the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions. |
Habitat | It is a place that provides all the things an organism needs to live. |
Population | A group of organisms of 1 species that live in an area at the same time. |
Community | A group of populations make this. |
niche | The role of an organism. |
Carrying capacity | The number of organisms that can live in an habitat. |
predator | the animal that eats the prey |
prey | the thing that is getting eaten |
producers | make their own energy |
consumers | cannot make their own energy |
herbivores | animals that don't eat any meat |
carnivores | kill and eat only meat |
omnivores | eat both meat and veggies |
scavengers | eat only roadkill meat |
decomposers | get energy by breaking down waste |
food chain | steps showing the movement of energy |
food web | a series of food chains |
symbiosis | a log term relationship between organisms |
parasites | live outside or inside an organism, taking nutrients from it |