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Carnivore

An organism that eats other organisms

Fresh Water Habitat

A habitat where organisms live in water that does not salt

Marine Habitat

A habitat where animals live in water that contains salt

Omnivore

An organism that eats both producers and consumers

Primary Consumer

An organism that eats a producer as its food source

Secondary Consumer

An organism that eats a primary consumer as its food

Terrestrial Habitat

A habitat where animals live on land

Abiotic factor

A nonliving physical or chemical part of an ecosystem

Adaptation

A characteristic, a behavior, or any inherited trait that makes a species able to survive and reproduce in a particular enviroment

Autotroph

An organism that captures energy from sunlight and uses it to produce energy-rich carbon compounds, usually through the process of photosynthesis

Biotic Factor

A living thing in an ecosystem

Community

All the populations that live and interact with each other in a particular place.

Decomposer

An organism that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter

Ecology

The scientific study of how living things interact with each other and their environment

Ecosystem

All living and nonliving things that interact in a particular enviroment

Energy Pyramid

A model used to show the amount of energy available to living things in an ecosystem

Environment

Everything that surrounds a living thing, made up of both living and nonliving factors

Food Chain

A model used to show the feeding relationship between a single producer and a chain or consumers in an ecosystem

Food Web

A model used to show a feeding relationship in which many food chains overlap in an ecosystem

Habitat

The natural environment in which a living thing gets all that it needs to live

Heterotroph

An organism that consumes other organisms to get energy

Niche

The role a living thing plays in its habitat

Organism

An individual living thing, made up of one or many cells, that is capable of growing and reproducing

Population

A group of organisms of the same species that live in the same area

Species

A group of living things that are so closely related that they can breed with one another and produce offspring that can breed as well