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chapter 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abiotic | It is another word for nonliving. |
| Biotic | It is another word for living. |
| ecosystem | It is all the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions. |
| Habitat | It is a place that provides all the things an organism needs to live. |
| Population | A group of organisms of 1 species that live in an area at the same time. |
| Community | A group of populations make this. |
| niche | The role of an organism. |
| Carrying capacity | The number of organisms that can live in an habitat. |
| predator | the animal that eats the prey |
| prey | the thing that is getting eaten |
| producers | make their own energy |
| consumers | cannot make their own energy |
| herbivores | animals that don't eat any meat |
| carnivores | kill and eat only meat |
| omnivores | eat both meat and veggies |
| scavengers | eat only roadkill meat |
| decomposers | get energy by breaking down waste |
| food chain | steps showing the movement of energy |
| food web | a series of food chains |
| symbiosis | a log term relationship between organisms |
| parasites | live outside or inside an organism, taking nutrients from it |