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Lesson 6
Ecosystems
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Predator | An animal that hunts and eats another animal |
| Prey | An animal that is hunted for food |
| Producers | They make their own food for energy |
| Consumers | They are organisms that cannot make their own food |
| Herbivore | Eat only plants |
| Carnivore | Eat only meats |
| Omnivore | Eat all things |
| Scavengers | Eat dead animals |
| Decomposers | Animals that consume waste and dead organisms and break them down |
| Food Chain | Series of steps of which energy moves from one thing to another |
| Food Web | A diagram that combines many food chains |
| Parasite | Lives on or in another organism, takes nutrients from organisms |
| Symbiosis | A long-term relationship between two different organisms |
| 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 | Non-living |
| Population | group of one species living in an area |
| Community | group of one species living 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 |