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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| organisms | a living thing |
| habitat | an envirment that has all the things that a organism needs to live and grow |
| biotic factor | a living or once living part of a organisms habitat |
| abiotic factors | a nonliving part of an organisms habitat |
| population | all the members of all species living in an area |
| community | all the different populations that live together in one area |
| ecosystem | all the living AND nonliving thing in one area |
| limiting factor | a factor that causes a populition to decrease in size |
| consumer | plants and organism that must consume other organisms for food |
| decomposer | an organism that brakes down waste and dead materiel and returns nutrins to an ecosystem |
| food Chain | a simple chain of events that ilistates how energy is tranferd by eating and being eaten |
| food web | shows relationship between overlaping food Chain in am ecosystem |
| energy pyramid | shows the amount of available |
| evaporation | liquid to gas |
| condenstoin | gas to liquid |
| precipitation | water falling from the sky to form the rain |
| things that cycle | water,arbon dioxide,oxygen ,nitron |