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Term | Definition |
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biotic | living |
abiotic | nonliving |
ecosystem | all the living and non living things in a area and there interactions |
habitat | a place that provides all the things an orginism needs to live |
population | a group of orginisms of one species that live in a area at one time |
community | a community may have populations of oak trees maple trees and pine trees |
niche | the role an orginism has to play in an ecosystem |
carrying capasity | the number of orginisms that can live in an area |
predator | the one that hunts and eats the animals or prey |
prey | prey is the one that gets eaten |
producers | someone or something that makes there own energy |
consumers | cant make there own food or energy so they get it from eating other consumers or producers |
herbivores | only eat plants |
carnivores | eat other animals |
omnivores | eat plants or other animals |
scavengers | eat other dead animals |
decomposers | get energy by breaking down waste or dead orginisms |
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 |