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Ecosystems
Consumers
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Herbivores | Animals that depend on plants to get energy or to survive. |
| Carnivores | Animals that depend on meat to get energy or to survive. |
| Omnivores | Animals that depend on either meat or plants to get energy or survive |
| Organisms | An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form. |
| Producers | An living organisms that produces or make plants or food. |
| Decomposers | An living organism that breaks down dead organisms. |
| Scavengers | An organism (plants or animals) that waits for its prey to die and then eats its remainings. |
| Herb | Plants. |
| Omni | Everything. |
| Carni | Meat |
| Predator | An animal that naturally preys on others. |
| Prey | An animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food. |
| Biotic Factors | The living components (organisms) that shape up the environment. |
| Abiotic Factors | A non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment. |
| Consumers | An organism, usually an animal, that feeds on plants or other animals. |
| Terrestrial Ecosystem | A land-based community of organisms. |
| Aquatic Ecosystem | An ecosystem in a body of water. |
| Food Chains | The path of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem. |
| Food Webs | Overlapping food chains with different pathways for the flow of food energy in an ecosystem. |
| Energy Pyramid | A diagram that shows the amount of energy passed on at each level of a food chain. |
| Competition | The struggle of organisms against each other to get the same resource. |
| Natural Resources | Materials in the environment that useful to people. |
| Population | All the organisms of the same species that love in the same place at the same time. |
| Community | Populations of different kinds of organisms that live in the same place at the same time. |
| Habitat | The environment where an organism lives. |
| Estuary | A place where fresh water from a river empties into the ocean and mixes with it. |
| Brackish | Slightly salty, as is the mixture of river water and seawater in estuaries. |