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Chapter 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions |
| habitat | provides all the things an organism needs to live |
| biotic | living |
| abiotic | nonliving |
| population | a group of one species living in a area |
| community | different populations in a area |
| niche | the role that an organism has in an ecosystem |
| Carrying Capacity | the number of organisms that can live in an area |
| predator | an animal that hunts and eats an another animal |
| prey | any animal that is hunted by others for food |
| producers | make their own food for energy |
| consumers | organisms that cannot make their own food |
| decomposers | organisms that get their energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms |
| herbivores | eat only plants |
| carnivores | eat only meat |
| omnivores | eat plants and meat |
| scavengers | eat only dead animals |
| food chain | a series of steps showing how energy moves from biotic factors to another |
| food web | a diagram of many food chains |
| symbiosis | a long-term relationship between two organisms |
| parasites | they live inside or outside another organism taking nutrients from that organism |
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