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Ecology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| autotroph | Another name for "producers". "Self feeder" They make their own food. |
| heterotroph | Another name for "consumers". "Other feeder" |
| predator | A consumer that hunts its food. |
| mutualism | A symbiotic relationship where BOTH organisms win. |
| parasitism | the relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it (usually not fatal damage) win-lose |
| commensalism | a situation in which two species live together in a way that is helpful to one species and not harmful to the other win-no effect |
| prey | an animal that is caught by another animal and eaten |
| competition | the struggle between individuals of the same or different species for food, space, light, etc, when these are inadequate to supply the needs of all |
| scavenger | any animal that feeds on dead organisms and other decaying organic matter |
| herbivore | an animal that eats only plants. |
| carnivore | an animal that eats other animals. |
| omnivore | an animal that eats both plants and meat |
| parasite | a plant or animal that lives in or on another type of animal and feeds on it |
| host | a plant or animal that has another plant or animal, called a parasite, living on i |
| sun | the source of almost all energy on Earth |
| photosynthesis | the process in which green plants combine carbon dioxide and water, by using energy from light, to produce their own food |
| decomposer | a living thing, especially a bacterium or fungus that causes something to decay by a slow natural process |
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