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Chapter 6 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions |
| Habitat | provides all the things an organism needs to live |
| Abiotic | nonliving factors |
| Biotic | living organisms |
| Population | a group of one species living in an area |
| Community | different populations in an area |
| Niche | a "roll" in an ecosystem |
| Carrying capacity | the number of organisms that can live in a habitat |
| Predator | the one that hunts and eats other animals |
| Prey | the one that gets hunted and eaten |
| Producers | make their own energy |
| Consumers | can’t make their own food and get energy from other producers of consumers |
| Herbivores | only plants as a food |
| Omnivores | eats all things |
| carnivores | eat ONLY meat |
| scavenger | eat already dead food |
| Decomposers | break down biotic things that are dead |
| Food Chain | a series of steps showing how energy moves from biotic factor to another |
| Food Web | diagram of many different food chains |
| Symbiosis | long-term relationship between two different organisms |