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chapter 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |