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Week 25 3/15
Term | Definition |
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Abiotic | A non-living element of an ecosystem |
Biotic | A living element of an ecosystem |
Ecosystem | When living and nonliving element interact together it forms this |
Change | To make different |
Impact | Direct effect or change |
Organism | Any living thing |
Producer | An organism that creates its own food using sunlight through the process of photosynthesis |
Consumer | An organism that gets its energy from eating other organisms |
Decomposer | An organism that breaks down dead organisms and waste |
Decomposition | The process in which dead organisms are broken down and returned to the soil |
Prey | An organism that is hunted and eaten |
Predator | An organism that hunts and kills other organisms for food |
Parasite | An organism that must live on or inside another organism in order to get its energy |
Host | The organism that a parasite lives on or inside |
Food Chain | Shows the flow of energy from one organism to another |
Food Web | Many food chains put together that shows the flow of energy from one organism to another |
Herbivore | An animal that only eats vegetation |
Carnivore | An animal that only eats meat |
Omnivore | An animal that eats meat and vegetation |
Role | The part an organism plays within its environment (its position or duty) |