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Science Finals
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ecology | the relationship between a group of living things and their environment |
| Ecosystem | everything that exists in a particular environment |
| abiotic | non-living organisms |
| biotic | living organisms |
| the 5 levels of organization | 1)cell 2)organism 3)population 4)community 5)ecosystem |
| adaptation | any alteration in the structure or function of an organism (change) write examples down |
| purpose of a food web | ...is to transfer energy to another |
| arrows in a food web | ...show where and how energy if being transferred |
| food chain | how energy is being transferred to one another |
| food web | has more energy than a food chain |
| Primary source of energy | sun |
| photosynthesis | the way plants get energy from the sun |
| producer | a plant in which it can only produce energy from the sun |
| herbivore | plant eater |
| omnivore | organism who eats both plants and animals |
| carnivore | organism that may only eat meat |
| nich | the animals role that it plays (not literally) |
| habitat | the place in which an organism lives |