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Life Science #1
Term | Definition |
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basic needs | the things an organism needs to survive |
community | a group of organisms that live together in the same environment |
drought | a long period of little to no rain |
ecosystem | all living and non living things in environment |
individual | a single member of a population of organisms |
interdependence | when organisms depend on each other for survival |
living organism | something that grows, changes and makes other living things |
non living object | an object that is not living |
organism | any living thing |
population | all members of a species living in the same environment |
relationship | a connection between two or more things |
species | the smallest group of organisms of the same kind that are able to produce offspring |
survive | to stay alive |
bacteria | a one cell organism with no nucleus |
carnivore | an animal that eats other animals for food |
compost | dead and decaying plate matter |
consumer | an organism that receives energy by eating other organisms |
decomposer | an organism that receives energy by breaking down dead matter, returning nutrients to the environment |
food chain | food energy in an ecosystem from producers to consumers in order |
food web | a system of overlapping and connecting food chains in an ecosystem |
herbivore | a consumer that eats only plants |
nutrients | a substance needed by an organism to grow and survive |
omnivore | an organism that eats both plants and animals |