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Science Chapter 6
Term | Definition |
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Ecosystem | All the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions. |
Habitat | A place that provides all things a organism needs to live. |
Population | A group of one species in a area |
Community | A different population in a area |
bionic | living |
abiontic | nonliving |
Niche | The role that a organism plays in its ecosystem |
Carrying Capacity | The number of organisms that can live in a area. |
Predator | the one that hunts and eats other animals |
Prey | the one that gets hunted and eaten |
Consumers | can’t make their own food and get energy from other producers of consumers |
herbivores | Eat only plants |
Carnivores | Eat only other animals |
Omnivores | eat plants and animals |
Scavengers | eats dead animals |
Decomposers | get energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms |
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. |