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Chapter 6
Term | Definition |
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Ecosystem | Is all the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions |
Habitat | Provides all the things an organisms need to live |
Biotic | Living |
Abiotic | Factors in an ecosystem determine what lives there- Non living |
Population | Is a group of one species living in an area |
Community | Is different population in an area |
Niche | Is the role that an organism has in an ecosystem |
Carrying Capacity | is the # of organisms that live in an area |
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 only plants and animals |
Scavengers | Eat only 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 |