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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A nonliving part of an ecosystem | -A nonliving part of an ecosystem |
| biotic factor | A living part of an ecosystem |
| carnivore | An organism, usually an animal, that eats meat |
| consumer - | An organism that cannot make its own food and depends on plants and other animals for food, nutrition, and energy |
| decomposer | An organism that breaks down wastes and dead or dying organisms |
| ecology | The study of how living and nonliving things interact |
| ecosystem | All the living and nonliving things in an environment and their interactions with each other |
| food chain | The path of energy in food from one organism to another |
| food web | The overlapping food chains in an ecosystem |
| habitat | The place where a plant or animal naturally lives and grows. |
| herbivore | An organism that eats mainly plants, algae, and other producers |
| omnivore | An organism that eats a variety of other living things, like plants and animals, as well as fungi or algae |
| predator | An animal that hunts other animals for food |
| prey | A living thing that is hunted for food |
| Producer | An organism that makes its own food using sunlight through photosynthesis (or chemical processes) |
| scavenger | An animal that feeds on dead or decaying matter; most often a carnivore who eats dead animals |