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chapter 6
Term | Definition |
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ecosystem | is all living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions |
habitat | is a place that provides all the things an organism need to live |
biotic factors | all the living things |
abiotic factors | all the nonliving things |
population | is a group of organisms of one species |
community | is made up of different types of species |
niche | is a role that is played to keep the organisms in shape |
carrying community | is the number of organisms that can live in a habitat |
predator | is the animals that hunts and eats another animals |
prey | is the animal that is being hunted |
herbivores | only eat plants |
omnivores | eat plants and animals |
scavengers | eat the already dead animals |
decomposers | get energy by braking down wasted and dead organisms |
producers | are organisms that can produce there own energy |
consumers | are organisms that can't produce there own energy |
connivers | only eat animals (meat) |
food chain | describes one way energy flows in a ecosystem |
food web | is a diagram that combines many food chains |
symbiosis | is a long-term relationship between two animals |
parasites | is a organism that live on or inside another organism |