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Habitat vocabulary
Habitat vocabular
Question | Answer |
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A change in a plant or an animal that makes it better suited to survive in its environment. | adaptation |
The things organisms do to survive | behavioral adaptation |
A group of living things that belong to one or more species, interact ecologically, and are located in one place (as a bog or pond) | communities |
A plant or animal that requires complex organic compounds for food, which it obtains by preying on other living things or eating particles of organic matter | consumers |
An organism (as a bacterium or a fungus) that lives on and decomposers dead organisms. | decomposers |
A system made up of an ecological community and its environment especially under natural conditions | ecosystem |
The whole group of interacting food chains in an ecological community | food web |
The series of stages of form and activity through which a living thing passes from a beginning stage in one individual to do the same stage in its offspring | life cycle |
The place or kind of place in which an animal or plant naturally lives | habitat |
The function that an organism performs in the food web of that community. It includes everything else the organism does and needs in its environment. | niche |