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chapter 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions. |
| predator | an animal that eats another animal is called a predator. |
| prey | any animal that is hunted by others for food is called prey. |
| producers | they make their own food for energy. |
| consumers | they are organisms that cannot make their own food. |
| Decompose | they are organisms that get their energy by breaking wastes and dead organisms. |
| herbivores | they only eat plants. |
| carnivores | only eat other animals. |
| omnivores | eat both plants and animals. |
| scavengers | carnivores that feed on dead animals. |
| food chains | is a series of steps by witch energy moves from one type of living thing to another. |
| food webs | is a diagram that combines many food chains into one picture. |
| competition | more than one organism fighting for something it needs to live. |
| symbiosis | a long term relationship between two different organisms. |
| parasite | an organism that lives on or out side of another organism. |
| 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 |
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