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Chapter 6 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | 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 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 |
| Predator | An animal that hunts and eats another animal |
| Prey | An animal that is hunted by a predator |
| Producers | They make their own food for energy |
| Consumers | Organisms that cannot make it's own food. They get energy from producers or other consumers. |
| Herbivores | They only eat plants |
| Carnivores | They only eat meats |
| Omnivores | They consume both plants and meat |
| Scavengers | They feed on dead animals |
| Decomposers | They get their energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms |
| Food Chain | Series of steps by which energy moves from one type of living thing to another |
| Food Web | A diagram that combines many food chains to one picture |
| Symbiosis | A long-term relationship between two different organisms |
| Parasites | A organism that lives in or on other organisms |