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chapter 6 vocab
Term | Definition |
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Predator | An animal that hunts and eats another animal |
Prey | Any animal that is hunted by others for food |
Producers | Make their own food for energy |
Consumers | Organisms that cannot make their own food. They get energy from producers or other consumers |
Omnivers | Eat both plants and animals |
Carnivors | Eat only other animals |
Herbivors | Eat only plants |
Scavenger | Feed on dead onimals |
Decomposers | Organisms that get their energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms |
Food Chain | A series of steps by which energy moves from one type of living thing to another |
Food Web | A diagram that combines many food chains into a picture |
Symbiosis | A long-term relationship between two different organism |
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 |
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 |
Parasites | Live inside or outside another organism taking nutrients from that organism |