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Question | Answer |
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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 |