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Science chapter 6
Ch 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ecosystems | 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. |
| Prey | the one that gets hunted and eaten. |
| 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. |