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chapter six
science
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| habitat | A habitat is a place that provides all things that an organism needs to live |
| Ecosystem | An ecosystem is all living and non-living things |
| Biotic Factors | Any living thing in an ecosystem |
| Abiotic | Any Non-living things in an ecosystem |
| niche | a NICHE is the role in an ecosystem |
| Carrying capacity | Carrying capacity is the # of organisms that can live in a habitat |
| herbivore | only eats plants |
| carnivore | an animal that only eats other animals |
| omnivores | something that eats plants and animals |
| scavengers | eats found, dead animals |
| preditor | A hunter |
| prey | the hunted |
| consumer | can’t make their own food and get energy from other producers of consumers |
| producer | make their own food for energy |
| decomposer | get energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms |
| Biotic Factor | living |
| Abiotic Factor | non-living |
| food chain | a series of steps showing how energy moves from biotic factor to another. |
| food web | a diagram of many different food chains |
| Symbiosis | a long-term relationship between two different organisms. |
| parasites | live inside or outside another organism taking nutrients from that organism |