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ecosystems
Term | Definition |
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Ecosystem | All the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions |
Habitat | Provides all the things an organism needs to live |
Biotic Factor | Living organisms |
Abiotic Factor | Nonliving |
Population | Group of one species living in an area |
Community | Different populations in one area |
Niche | The role that an organism has in an ecosystem |
Carrying Capacity | The number of organisms that can live in a habitat |
Predator | Hunts and eats animals |
Prey | The one that gets hunted and killed |
Producers | Make their own food for energy |
Consumers | Can’t make their own food and get energy from other producers ofconsumers |
Herbivores | Only eat plants |
Carnivores | Only eat animals |
Omnivores | Only eat plants and animals |
Scavengers | Only eat dead animals |
Decomposers | Get energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms |
Food Web | Diagram of many different food chains |
Symbiosis | A long-term relationship between two different organisms. |
Parasites | Live inside or outside another organism taking nutrients from that organism |