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chapter 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| •Abiotic | is a nonliving thing |
| Biotic | is a living things |
| food web | is a diagram of many food chains |
| consumer | Cant make their own food |
| Symbiosis | is a relationship between two things |
| consumer | They get energy from producers other |
| Herbivores | Only eat plants |
| Carnivores | Eat only other animals |
| Omnivores | Eat both plant and animals |
| Scavengers | Feed on already dead animals |
| Decomposer | Get there food by breaking down wastes and dead organisms |
| food chain | a series of o steps showing how energy moves from one biotic factor to another |
| Ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions |
| habitat | provides all the things an organism needs to live |
| Population | group of one species living in an area |
| Community | different populations in an area |
| Niche | the role that an organism has in an ecosystem |
| Carrying Capacity | the number of organisms that can live in a habitat |
| parasites | gets inside or outside an organism and takes nutrients from it |