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Science Chapter 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | All the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions. |
| Habitat | A place that provides all things a organism needs to live. |
| Population | A group of one species in a area |
| Community | A different population in a area |
| bionic | living |
| abiontic | nonliving |
| Niche | The role that a organism plays in its ecosystem |
| Carrying Capacity | The number of organisms that can live in a area. |
| Predator | the one that hunts and eats other animals |
| Prey | the one that gets hunted and eaten |
| 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. |