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chapter 6 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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