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vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| habitat | the place where an organism lives |
| ecologay | the study of interactions between organiams and their envirment |
| population | all the members of a species living in teh same place |
| community | a group of differnet populations living in the same place and interactions with each other |
| ecosystem | a community and all the nonliving (abiotic) things that the community interacts with |
| abiotic | nonliving |
| biotic | living |
| food chain | the path of food through a community |
| producer | an organism that makes it's own food |
| consumer | an organism that eats other organisms |
| decomposer | an organism that breaks down and obsorbs nutrients from dead matter |
| food web | a group of food chains that are linked to each other |
| natural resource | a substance found in nature that is useful to humans |
| conservation | the wise and careful use of natural resources |
| recycling | when you reuse something like: paper, you can use the back |
| organism | any living thing or one living thing |
| biology | the study of all organisms |
| botany | the study of plants |
| zoology | the study of animals |
| genetics | the study of how parents look like their offsprings,children. |
| microbiology | the study of organisms too small to be seen by the eye alone |
| characteristiscs | a quality or feature of a person of thing |
| reproduce | to make more of one owns kind of organism |
| asexual reproduction | to reproduce with one parent |
| sexual reproduction | to reproduce with 2 parents |
| life span | the amount of time an organism is likely to live |