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Abiotic |
Non-living factors in the environment *rock |
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Biotic |
Living factors in the environment * tree |
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Eco System |
Living organisms interacting with each other and with the non living components in our environment |
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Adaptions |
Characteristics that helps an organism to survive in its environment * bird, beak |
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Biosphere |
Where all life is |
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Habitat |
Where an organism lives and reproduces. *frog, swamp |
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Carnivore |
A consumer that only eats other animals * lion |
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Herbivore |
An organism that eats only plants * horse |
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Omnivore |
An animal that eats both animals and plants * human |
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Chlorophyll |
The chemical in a plant that traps energy from the sun which gives them their green colour |
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Consumer |
Organisms that must eat other organisms to get the energy they need and nutrients they need * animals consumers organisms |
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Decomposers |
Organisms that get the energy they need by breaking down dead matter and waste products *worm |
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Producers |
An organism that is able to make its own food * plants |
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Food Chain |
the sequence of who eats who in a biological community to obtain nutrients Decomposer-grass-rabbit-fox-eagle |
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Food web |
A number of food chains combined |
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Photosynthesis |
The process used by plants to make their own food |
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Predator |
An organism that preys upon other organisms |
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Prey |
An animal that is eaten by s predator * bunny to a fox |
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Second order consumer |
A consumer that eats a first order consumer *bird |
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Third order consumer |
An organism that eats second order consumer *human |
