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Chapter 4 Science
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things in an environment and the many ways they interact |
| consumers | living things that eat other living things |
| food web | system of overlapping food chains in which the flow of energy branches out in many directions |
| decomposers | organisms that break down animal waste and remains |
| food chain | the transfer of energy from one organism to another by eating and being eaten |
| omnivore | animal that eats plants and other animals |
| population | all the members of a species that live in an area of an ecosystem |
| producers | living things that make their own food |
| competition | occurs when two or more living things need the same resources to survive |
| herbivore | an animal that eats plants |
| habitat | an area or place where an organism lives in an ecosystem |
| carnivore | an animal that eats other animals |