Key terms from the Ecology Unit
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| An organism that can make its own food | Producer
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| A consumer that eats only plants | Herbivore
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| An organism that breaks down waste and dead organisms | Decomposer
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| A consumer that eats both plants and animals | Omnivore
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| A consumer that eats only animals | Carnivore
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| A series of events in which one organism eats another to and gets energy | Food Chain
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| A pattern of overlapping food chains | Food Web
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| A diagram that shows how much energy moves from one feeding level to the next | Energy Pyramid
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| An organism that gets energy by feeding on other organisms | Consumer
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| A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms | Scavenger
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| The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment | Ecology
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| Any living thing | Organism
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| An organism’s environment, that provides all the things it needs in order to survive | Habitat
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| A living part of an organism’s habitat | Biotic Factor
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| A non-living part of an organism’s habitat | Abiotic Factor
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| A group of organisms that are similar and can mate with each other to produce offspring | Species
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| All the members of one species in a particular area | Population
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| All the different populations that live together in an area | Community
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| A community of organisms, along with all the abiotic factors in the environment | Ecosystem
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| The number of organisms that live in a certain area | Population Density
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| Any factor that can cause a population to decrease | Limiting Factor
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| The largest population that a habitat can support | Carrying Capacity
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