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august 20, 2015 quiz vocab science
Term | Definition |
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community | all the populations of species that live in the same habitat and interact with each other |
ecosysytem | a community of organisms and their abiotic- non living environment |
biotic | living factors in the environment-trees, plants, animals, cells. |
Consumer | an organism that eats other organisms or organic matter |
abiotic | the non living part of the environment (water/rocks/light/temperature/building) |
decomposers | organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms |
herbivore | an animal that feeds only on plants |
producer | organism that can make its own food by using energy from its surroundings |
scavenger | an animal that finds and eats dead or rotting animals |
population | a group of organisms of the same species that live in a specific geographical area |