6th Grade Science Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| Biotic Factor | An Interaction that involves a living or one living organism |
| Abiotic Factor | A nonliving part of an environment |
| Population | A group of individuals of the same species that live in the same place at the same time |
| Species | Organisms that are closely related and can mate to produce fertile offspring |
| Community | All the populations of soecies that live in the same habitat and interact with each other |
| Ecosystem | A community of organisms and their nonliving environment |
| Producer | An organism that can make its own food |
| Decomposer | An organism that gets energy and mutrients by breaking gown the remains of other organisms |
| Consumer | An organism that eats other organisms |
| Food Chain | The path of energy transfer from producers to consumers |
| Food Web | A diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in a ecosystem |
| Carrying Capacity | The largest population that an invironment can support |
| Predator | An organism that kills and eats another organism |
| Prey | An animal that is killed and eaten by another animal |
| Symbiosis | A relationship in which two different organisms live in close association with each other |
| Mutualism | A relationship between two species in which both species benefit |
| Commensalism | A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is unaffected |
| Parasitism | A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other species is harmed |
| Renewable Resource | A natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate at which the resources is consumed |
| Nonrenewable Resource | A resource that forms at a rate that is much slower than rate at which the resource is consumed |
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