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chapter 6
Term | Definition |
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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 |