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Carnivore |
An organism that eats other organisms |
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Fresh Water Habitat |
A habitat where organisms live in water that does not salt |
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Marine Habitat |
A habitat where animals live in water that contains salt |
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Omnivore |
An organism that eats both producers and consumers |
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Primary Consumer |
An organism that eats a producer as its food source |
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Secondary Consumer |
An organism that eats a primary consumer as its food |
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Terrestrial Habitat |
A habitat where animals live on land |
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Abiotic factor |
A nonliving physical or chemical part of an ecosystem |
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Adaptation |
A characteristic, a behavior, or any inherited trait that makes a species able to survive and reproduce in a particular enviroment |
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Autotroph |
An organism that captures energy from sunlight and uses it to produce energy-rich carbon compounds, usually through the process of photosynthesis |
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Biotic Factor |
A living thing in an ecosystem |
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Community |
All the populations that live and interact with each other in a particular place. |
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Decomposer |
An organism that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter |
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Ecology |
The scientific study of how living things interact with each other and their environment |
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Ecosystem |
All living and nonliving things that interact in a particular enviroment |
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Energy Pyramid |
A model used to show the amount of energy available to living things in an ecosystem |
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Environment |
Everything that surrounds a living thing, made up of both living and nonliving factors |
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Food Chain |
A model used to show the feeding relationship between a single producer and a chain or consumers in an ecosystem |
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Food Web |
A model used to show a feeding relationship in which many food chains overlap in an ecosystem |
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Habitat |
The natural environment in which a living thing gets all that it needs to live |
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Heterotroph |
An organism that consumes other organisms to get energy |
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Niche |
The role a living thing plays in its habitat |
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Organism |
An individual living thing, made up of one or many cells, that is capable of growing and reproducing |
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Population |
A group of organisms of the same species that live in the same area |
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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 |