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chapter 6
ecosystem
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ecosystem | is all the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions |
| habitat | provids all things an organism needs to live |
| biotic | means living or once living |
| abiotic | means nonliving |
| poulation | is a group of onespeices living in the same area |
| community | is different population in a area |
| niche | is the role that an organisms has in an ecoysystem |
| Carrying Capacity | the number of organisms that can live in a habitat |
| Predator | the one that hunts and eats other animals |
| Prey | the one that gets hunted and eaten |
| Producers | make their own food for energy |
| Consumers | can’t make their own food and get energy from other producers of consumers |
| Herbivores | Eat only plants |
| Carnivores | Eat only other animals |
| Omnivores | eat plants and animals |
| Scavengers | eats dead animals |
| Decomposers | get energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms |
| 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 |