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Term | Definition |
Biotic | living parts of an ecosystem |
Abiotic | non-living parts of an ecosystem |
Producer/autotroph | a plant that makes its own food through photosynthesis |
Consumer/heterotroph | an animal that eats other organisms to get their energy |
Decomposer | an organism that breaks down dead or decaying organisms and puts nutrients back in the soil |
Carnivore | an plant or animal that eats meat |
Omnivore | a plant or animal that eats both plants and meat |
Scavenger | a carnivore that eats the leftover meat off of dead animals |
Food Chain | a series of steps showing how matter and energy move in an ecosystem |
Food Web | a web made up of many connected food chains |
Suns role in food | it is the source of all living things |
chain/web | a series of steps showing how matter moves through an ecosystem |
Energy pyramid | a diagram that compares energy used by producers, primary consumer, and other trophic levels |
Symbiosis | a relationship between two species in which at least one species benefits |
Mutualism | a relationship in which both species benefit |
Commensalism | a relation ship in which one species benefits and one species is neither helped or harmed |
Parasitism | a relationship in which one species benefits and the other is harmed |
Predator/Prey | the predator eats the prey |
Competition | when two or more animals compete for things in an ecosysem |
Adaptation | a feature that a plant or animal has that helps it survive in its ecosystem |
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