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Chapter 6
Notes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | Is all living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions. |
| Habitat | A place that provides all the things an organisms needs to live. |
| Biotic | A Living thing |
| Abiotic | A nonliving thing |
| FOOD CHAIN | is a series of steps showing how energy moves from one biotic factor |
| FOOD WEBS | is diagram of many food chains |
| SYMBIOSIS | is a long term relationship between two organisms |
| Herbivores | only eat plants |
| carnivores | only eat animals |
| omnivores | eat plant and animals |
| scavenders | fest on dead animals |
| population | a group of one speices living in a certian area |
| community | different populations in an area |
| decomposers | get energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms |
| parasites | live inside or outside another organism taking nutrients from that organism |
| niche | the role that an organism has in an ecosystem |
| carrying capasity | the number of organisms that can live in a habitat |
| predator | the one that hunts and eats other animals |
| prey | the one that gets hunted and eaten |
| producers | make their own food for energy |
| consumers | can’t make their own food and get energy from other producers of comsumers |