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Chapter 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | All the living and non-living things in an area and their interactions. |
| Habitat | A place that provides all the things an organisim needs to live. |
| Biotic | A living orginisim. |
| Abiotic | A non-living orgisim. |
| Population | A group of one speiceis living in one area. |
| Community | A different population in an area. |
| Food Chain | A series of steps that show how energy moves from biotic factor to another. |
| Food Web | a diogram of many different food chains. |
| Symbiosis | A long-term relationship between two organisims. |
| Paisite | Lives inside or outside an orginisim and takes nutrients from that orginisim. |
| Niche | the role that an organism has in an ecosystem |
| carrying capacity | the number of organisms that can live in a habitat |
| predetor | the one that hunts and eats other animals |
| prey | the one that hunts and eats other animals |
| producers | make their own food for energy |
| consumers | can’t make their own food and get energy from other producers of consumers |
| herbiviors | Eat only plants |
| carniviors | Eat only other animals |
| omnivors | eat plants and animals |
| scavengers | eats dead animals |
| decomposers | get energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms |