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chapter 6
Question | Answer |
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ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions |
habitat | is a place that provides all the things an organism needs to live |
biotic | living |
adiotic | nonliving |
population | a group of one species living in an area |
community | different populations in an area |
niche | the role an organism has in an ecosystems |
carrying capacity | the number of organisms that can live in a habitat |
predator | animal that hunts and eats another animal |
pray | animal that that is hunted by others for food |
producers | make their own food |
consumers | can't make their own food so they get energy from otter producers of consumers |
Herbivores | eat only plants |
carnivores | eat only other animals |
omnivores | eat plants and animals |
scavengers | eat dead animals |
decomposers | get energy by braking down wastes and dead organisms |
food chain | series of steeps showing how energy moves from biotic factor to another |
food web | digram of many different food chains |
symbiosis | a long term relishionship between two organisms |
parasites | live inside or outside another organism taking nutrients |