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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | All of the living and nonliving things and their interactions |
| Habitat | Provides all of the things an organism needs to live |
| Biotic factor | Living organisms |
| Abiotic factor | Nonliving organisms |
| 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 |
| preditor | the one that hunts and eats other animals |
| prey | the one that gets hunted and eaten |
| producers | make their own food for energy |
| consumers | can't make their won food and get energy from other producers of consumers |
| herbivors | eat only plants |
| carnivors | eat only other animals |
| omnivors | eat plants and animals |
| scavengers | eat dead animals |
| decomposers | get energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms |
| food chain | a series of steps showing how energy moves from a biotic factor to another |
| food web | a diagram of many different food cains |
| symbiosis | a long term relationship between two different organisms |
| parasites | live inside or outside of an organism taking nutrients from that |