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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Biotic | living parts of an ecosystem |
| Abiotic | non-living parts of an ecosystem |
| Producer/autotroph | a plant that makes its own food through photosynthesis |
| Consumer/heterotroph | an animal that eats other organisms to get their energy |
| Decomposer | an organism that breaks down dead or decaying organisms and puts nutrients back in the soil |
| Carnivore | an plant or animal that eats meat |
| Omnivore | a plant or animal that eats both plants and meat |
| Scavenger | a carnivore that eats the leftover meat off of dead animals |
| Food Chain | a series of steps showing how matter and energy move in an ecosystem |
| Food Web | a web made up of many connected food chains |
| Suns role in food | it is the source of all living things |
| chain/web | a series of steps showing how matter moves through an ecosystem |
| Energy pyramid | a diagram that compares energy used by producers, primary consumer, and other trophic levels |
| Symbiosis | a relationship between two species in which at least one species benefits |
| Mutualism | a relationship in which both species benefit |
| Commensalism | a relation ship in which one species benefits and one species is neither helped or harmed |
| Parasitism | a relationship in which one species benefits and the other is harmed |
| Predator/Prey | the predator eats the prey |
| Competition | when two or more animals compete for things in an ecosysem |
| Adaptation | a feature that a plant or animal has that helps it survive in its ecosystem |
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