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chapter six
science
Term | Definition |
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habitat | A habitat is a place that provides all things that an organism needs to live |
Ecosystem | An ecosystem is all living and non-living things |
Biotic Factors | Any living thing in an ecosystem |
Abiotic | Any Non-living things in an ecosystem |
niche | a NICHE is the role in an ecosystem |
Carrying capacity | Carrying capacity is the # of organisms that can live in a habitat |
herbivore | only eats plants |
carnivore | an animal that only eats other animals |
omnivores | something that eats plants and animals |
scavengers | eats found, dead animals |
preditor | A hunter |
prey | the hunted |
consumer | can’t make their own food and get energy from other producers of consumers |
producer | make their own food for energy |
decomposer | get energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms |
Biotic Factor | living |
Abiotic Factor | non-living |
food chain | a series of steps showing how energy moves from biotic factor to another. |
food web | a diagram of many different food chains |
Symbiosis | a long-term relationship between two different organisms. |
parasites | live inside or outside another organism taking nutrients from that organism |