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6th Grade: Quarter 2
Q2 Vocabulary Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Organism | Any living thing |
| Producer | An organism that can make its own food & uses sunlight to make it's own energy. |
| Consumer | An organism that obtains energy by eating other organisms |
| Decomposer | An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms to obtain energy |
| Food chain | A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten |
| Food web | A community of organisms where there are several food chains connected |
| Herbivore (Primary Consumer) | An organism that eats only plants |
| Carnivore (Secondary/Tertiary Consumer) | organism that obtains energy by eating animals |
| Omnivore | A consumer that eats both plants and animals |
| Predator | An animal that hunts other animals for food |
| Prey | An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism |
| Mutualism | A relationship between two species in which both species benefit |
| Parasitism | A relationship between two organisms of different species where one benefits and the other is harmed |
| Predation | Interactions between organisms where one captures and consumes another. |
| Commensalism | A relationship between two organisms in which one benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed |
| Competition | a relationship between two organisms or species that strive for the same limited resources |
| Deforestation | removal of trees to make room for something besides forest. |
| Urbanization | population shift from rural to urban areas, the decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change |
| Desertification | the process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture. |
| Atom | The smallest unit that makes up all matter. |
| Subatomic particles | Particles that make up an atom and include: protons, neutrons, & electrons |
| Protons | Positively charged particle located in the nucleus of an atom. |
| Neutrons | Neutral (NO CHARGE) particles that are located in the nucleus of an atom. |
| Electrons | Negatively charged particles that surround the nucleus of an atom. |
| Nucleus | The positively charged center of an atom, consisting of protons and neutrons and containing nearly all its mass. |
| Electron Cloud | Where electrons are located around the nucleus of an atom. |
| Solid | A state of matter where the molecules are packed tightly and vibrate back and forth with a fixed shape and volume. |
| Liquid | A state of matter where the molecules can flow past each other. |
| Gas | A state of matter where the molecules are free to move in all directions at high speeds. |
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