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ecology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Producer | is an organism that makes its own food |
| consumer | it gets energy from other organisms to sustain itself |
| predator | Eats other animals below it. (prey) |
| prey | Is what the predator eats |
| parasite | organism that gets food and/or shelter from another organism |
| host | the organism that the parasite lives in/on |
| food chain | A diagram showing one pathway of the flow of energy in an ecosystem. |
| ecosystem | a place wher ther are aboitic and biotic factor, plants, animals, and decomposers all working together |
| Biotic | Living factors that effect the organism |
| Abiotic | Nonliving factors that affect the organism |
| populution | Members of the same species that live in the same area at the same time |
| community | All plants, animals, and other living things in a given area. |
| mutalism | Symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit |
| commensalism | Symbiotic relationship where one organism is helped and the other is not affected. |
| parasitism | Symbiotic relationship where one organism is helped and the other is harmed. |
| herbivore | animal who eats only plants |
| carnivore | animal who eats only other animals |
| omnivore | animal who eats both plants and animals |
| decomposer | organism that helps recycle nutrients once they are dead. |