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Science Biomes
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Organism | A living thing |
| Habitat | A place an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce. |
| Biotic Factor | Living parts of a habitat |
| Abiotic Factor | Non-living parts of a habitat |
| Photosynthesis | The food making process of plants |
| Producer | An organism that can make its own food |
| Consumer | an organism that eats other organisms |
| Decomposer | An organism that gets its energy by eating wastes and dead organisms |
| Herbivores | consumers that eat only plants |
| Carnivores | consumers that eat only animals |
| Omnivores | consumers that eat both plants and animals |
| Food Chain | a diagram that shows a series of organisms that eat other organisms |
| Food Web | a diagram made up of many food chains in an ecosystem |
| Energy Pyramid | a diagram in the shape of a pyramid that shows how energy moves from one feeding level to another |
| Biome | A group of land ecosystems |