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Ecology Part 1
SOL 4,5,7,8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Producer | Makes its own food (plants) |
| Consumer | Eats other organisms |
| Decomposer | Breaks down dead organisms |
| Ecosystem | Living and nonliving things interacting in an area |
| Population | Group of the same species in one area |
| Community | All populations living together |
| Habitat | Place where an organism lives |
| Niche | Role of an organism in its environment |
| Food chain | Path of energy transfer from one organism to another |
| Food web | Interconnected food chains |
| Predator | Organism that hunts others |
| Prey | Organism that is hunted |
| Competition | Organisms fighting for resources |
| Biotic factors | Living parts of an ecosystem |
| Abiotic factors | Nonliving parts (water, sunlight, temperature) |
| Environment | Surroundings of an organism |