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Vocabulary words for 7th Grade Science - Ecology & Interaction Among Living Thin

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habitat   environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce  
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biotic   living parts of the habitat (ex: tree, insect)  
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abiotic   nonliving parts of the habitat (ex: water, soil)  
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organism   a living thing  
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population   all the members of one organism in a particular area  
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community   all the different populations that live together in one area  
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ecosystem   all the living and nonliving things in a particular area  
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biomes   a group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms  
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food chains   series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy  
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food web   consists of many overlapping food chains in ecosystems (points to the consumer)  
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energy pyramid   as you move up the energy pyramid you lose energy  
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plankton   tiny drifting organisms found near the surface of aquatic environments  
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phytoplankton   plant like, include autotrophic Protists (plant cell)  
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zooplankton   animal like, include heterotrophic, decomposers or parasite Protist (Spongebob)  
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niche   the role of an organism in its habitat (its job)  
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competition   struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to pursue the same limited resources  
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predation   an interaction in which one organism kills another for food  
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predator   organism that does the killing  
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prey   organism that is killed  
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producer (autotroph)   organism that makes its own food  
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consumer (heterotroph)   obtains energy from feeding on other organisms  
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herbivores   only eats plants  
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carnivores   only eats animals  
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omnivores   eats both plants and animals  
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decomposer   break down dead waste and return the raw material back to the ecosystem (bacteria, fungi, worms)  
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scavenger   a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms  
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