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15 Cards in this Set
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habitat |
a place that provides all the things an organism needs to live |
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ecosystem |
all the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions |
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predator |
a consumer that hunts and eats another animal |
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prey |
any animal that is hunted by others for food |
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community |
the group of all populations in an area |
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decomposer |
org. that gets its own energy by breaking down wastes and dead org. |
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consumer |
org. that cannot make its own food |
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producer |
org. that makes its own food and energy |
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food web |
a diagram that combines many food chains into one picture |
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environment |
all the conditions surrounding an org. |
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food chain |
a series of steps by which energy moves from one type of living thing to another |
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pollution |
any substance that damages the environment |
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conservation |
an attempt to perserve or protect an environment from harmful changes |
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competition |
the struggle amoung org. for the same limited recources |
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population |
a group of org of one species that live in the same area at the same time |
