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Chapter 6 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions |
Habitat | provides all the things an organism needs to live |
Abiotic | nonliving factors |
Biotic | living organisms |
Population | a group of one species living in an area |
Community | different populations in an area |
Niche | a "roll" in an ecosystem |
Carrying capacity | the number of organisms that can live in a habitat |
Predator | the one that hunts and eats other animals |
Prey | the one that gets hunted and eaten |
Producers | make their own energy |
Consumers | can’t make their own food and get energy from other producers of consumers |
Herbivores | only plants as a food |
Omnivores | eats all things |
carnivores | eat ONLY meat |
scavenger | eat already dead food |
Decomposers | break down biotic things that are dead |
Food Chain | a series of steps showing how energy moves from biotic factor to another |
Food Web | diagram of many different food chains |
Symbiosis | long-term relationship between two different organisms |