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Life Science #1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |