Life Science
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| herbivore | All the living things in an ecosystem.
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| carnivore | An animal that eats other animals.
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| omnivore | An animal that eats both plants and animals.
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| organism | Any living thing.
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| producer | An organism that makes its own food.(plants)
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| consumer | An organism that cannot make its own food and must eat other organisms to survive.
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| decomposer | An organism that breaks down other organisms.
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| predator | An animal that hunts another animal for food.
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| prey | An animal that is hunted by another animal for food.
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| parasite | An organism that lives in or on another organism and feeds on them.
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| host | The organism that a parasite lives in or on.
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| food chain | The path that energy and nutrients follow in an ecosysytem.
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| food web | The overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
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| primary consumer | An organism that eats producers.
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| secondary consumers | An organism that eats primary consumers.
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| habitat | Physical area in which an organism lives.
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| niche | An organism's particular role in an ecosystem, or how it makes its living.
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| adaptation | A characteristic that improves an individual's ability to survive and reproduce in a partic ularparticular environment.
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| metamorphosis | The change in shape and form some organisms go through during their life cycles.
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| camouflage | A structural adaptation that enables an organism to blend in with its environment to hide from predators.
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| migration | A movement of people or animals from one region to another, usualy due to a change in enviornment or weather.
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| life cycle | The entire span in the life of an organism from one generation to the next.
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| species | A group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring.
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| larva | An immature form of an animal that looks very different from the adult.
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| instinct | A complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned, A complex inborn pattern of behaviors that help ensure survival and reproduction.
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| ecosystem | A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment.
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| extinct | A term that typically describes a species that no longer has any known living individuals.
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| population | The number of organisms of a particular species in a community.
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| community | All the living things in an ecosystem.
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| hibernation | A period of inactivity that some animals experience in winter that allows them to survive on stored body fat.
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| inherited trait | A characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring.
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