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Ecosystems Week 2
Term | Definition |
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Interdependence | The way in which living organisms depend on each other to remain alive, grow, and reproduce. |
food chain | A path of energy that flows from one organism to the next ( it flows from the sun to the producers to the primary consumers, then to the secondary consumers, to the tertiary consumers) |
food web | a diagram of several connected food chains |
niche | the role that an organism plays in the habitat and lifestyle of a population |
limiting factors | a resource or environmental factor that limits the size of a population (the amount of water limits the amount of animals that can live there) |
primary consumer | an organism that eats the producer (an animal that ONLY EATS PLANTS) |
secondary consumer | an organism that eats the primary consumer |
herbivore | an organism that only eats plants |
carnivore | an organism that only eats meat |
omnivore | an organism that eats both plants and meat |