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Ecosystoms
Science For The Bold
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ecosystom | 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 | a group of one species living in an area |
| Community | different populations in an area |
| Niche | the role that an organism has in an ecosystem |
| Carrying Capacity | the number of organisms that can live in a habitat |
| Predator | the one that hunts and eats other animals |
| Producers | make their own food for energy |
| Consumers | can’t make their own food and get energy from other producers of consumers |
| Herbivores | Eat only plants |
| Carnivores | Eat only other animals |
| Omnivores | eat plants and animals |
| Scavengers | eats dead animals |
| Decomposers | get energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms |
| Food Chain | a series of steps showing how energy moves from biotic factor to another. |
| Food Web | a 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 |