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Term | Definition |
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Ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions |
habitat | provides all the living things the organism needs to live |
biotic factor | living |
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 compacity | the number of organisms that can live in a habitat |
predator | the one who hunts |
prey | the one who gets hunted |
producer | makes its own food and energy |
Consumers | can’t make their own food and get energy from other producers of consumers |
hebavors | eat plants only |
carnivores | eat meat |
omnivores | eat plants and meat |
scavengers | eat dead things |
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 relationship between two different animals |
Parasites | live inside or outside another organism taking nutrients from that organism |