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ecosystem
Term | Definition |
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ecosystem | abiotic or biotic factors interacting with each other in a community |
adaptation | a characteristic that helps an animal survive in it's environment |
producer | a living organism that produces oxygen or food that animals need |
consumer | a living orginism that prey on producers |
prey | organism that is hunted for food |
predator | a living thing that hunts other living things |
carnivore | an organism that only eats meat |
omnivore | an organism that eats plants and meat |
abiotic | a non-living organism |
herbavor | an organism that eats only plants |
chloraphyll | a green chemical in a plants leaf that helps produce the plants food |
raptor | a bird of prey |
habitat | a place where an organism lives |
decomposer | dead organisms that break down into the soil |
camouflage | a diguise to blend in with your surroundings |
mimicry | imitation |
migration | movement from one place to another |
instinct | something you are born knowing how to do |
physical adaptation | the way organisms adapt to there environment |
photoshthasis | the proses of plants making food |
behavioral adaptation | things animals do to survive |
scavenger | organisms that eat dead animals |
food web and food chain | shows how energy passes through the enviorment |
energy | sunlight and the start of a food chain |
energy pyramid | a path in which energy travels from one plant to another |
biotic | living organisms in an ecosystem |