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Chapter 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Predator | An organism that hunts and eats other animals. |
| Prey | An animal that is hunted by other animals. |
| Producer | Makes their own food for energy. |
| Consumers | Organisms that cant get their food, eat producers or consumers. |
| Herbivores | Only eat plants |
| carnivores | Only eat meat |
| omnivores | They eat both. |
| Scavengers | They feed on dead animals. |
| Decomposers | Get their energy from breaking down waste and dead organisms. |
| Food chain | A series of steps by which energy moves from one thing to another, |
| Food webs | A diagram that combines many food chains into one picture. |
| Symbiosis | A long term relationship between two different organisms. |
| Parasite | A parasite lives on or in an 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 |