Vocabulary for Chapter 18 of Science
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| Ecology | the study of the interactions of living organisms with one another and with their environment
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| Biotic | describes living factors in the environment
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| Abiotic | describes the nonliving part of the environ- ment, including water, rocks, light, and temperature
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| Organism | a living thing; anything that can carry out life processes independently
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| Habitat | a habitat is an area were an organism can live
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| Population | a group of organisms of the same spe- cies that live in a specific geographical area
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| Community | all of the populations of species that live in the same habitat and interact with each other
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| Ecosystem | a community of organisms and their abiotic, or nonliving, environment
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| Biosphere | the part of Earth where life exists
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| Producer | an organism that can make its own food by using energy from its surroundings
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| Consumer | an organism that eats other organisms or organic matter
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| Decomposer | an organism that gets energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms or animal wastes and consuming or absorbing the nutrients
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| Herbivore | an organism that eats only plants
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| Carnivore | an organism that eats animals
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| Omnivore | an organism that eats both plants and animals
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| Food chain | triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem’s loss of energy, which results as energy passes through the ecosystem’s food chain
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| Food Web | a diagram that shows the feeding rela- tionships between organisms in an ecosystem
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| Energy pyramid | a triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem’s loss of energy, which results as energy passes through the ecosystem’s food chain
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