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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Biotic | Relating to living things. |
| Abiotic | Relating to non living things. |
| Producer/ Autotroph | an organism that is able to form nutritious organic substances from inorganic substances |
| Consumer/ Heterotroph | An organism that get it's nutritional requirements from other organisms |
| Decomposer | An organism that decomposes organic material |
| Herbivore | An organism which has a diet that consist of plants and plants only. |
| Carnivore | An organism which has a diet that consists of meat and meat only. |
| Omnivore | An organism that has a diet that consists of plants and meat. |
| Scavenger | An animal that eats dead organisms. |
| Food Chain | A food chain is the order of who eats who in a biological community |
| Food Web | A large group of several food chains |
| Suns role in food food chain/web | The sun is the source of energy for all food chains. |
| Energy Pyramid | Diagram displaying the movement of energy from a producer to higher levels of a food chain. |
| Symbiosis | Relationship between 2 organisms. |
| Mutualism | Symbiosis where both organisms benefit. |
| Commensalism | Symbiosis where one organism benefits, and one is not harmed nor hurt. |
| Parasitism | Symbiosis where one organism benefits and another is being harmed or even killed. |
| Predator/ Prey | One who eats another organism/ one who a predator eats. |
| Competition | Battle or race between 2 organisms for food, usually resulting in organisms hunting at different times of the day. |
| Adaptation | Ways organisms change or adjust their lifestyle based on where they live or who they live with. |
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