Term | Definition |
Ecosytem | Is all living and nonliving things |
Habitat | A place that provides an organism needs to live |
Biotic | All living organisms in an ecosytem |
Abiotic | All nonliving organisms in an ecosytem |
Population | Is a group of organisms of one species |
Community | Is populations that interact |
Niche | Is the role an organism had in an ecosystem |
Carrying Capacity | Is the number of organisms that can live in a habitat |
Predator | Hunts and eats another animal |
Prey | Is the animal that is hunted |
Consumer | Are organisms that cannot make their own food |
Producers | Makes their own food for energy |
Decomposers | Are organisms that get their own food by breaking down dead organisms |
Herbivore | Animals that only eat plants |
Carnivore | Animals that only eat meat |
Omnivore | Animals that eat both meat and plants |
Food Chain | Is a series of steps showing how energy moves from biotic factor to another |
Food Web | Is a diagram of many different food chains |
Symbiosis | Is a long-term relationship between two organisms |
Parasites | Live inside or outside another organisms taking nutrients from that organisms |
Scavenger | Eats dead animals |