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| organism | a living thing that carries out the five basic life functions |
| habitat | the home of an organism |
| environment | the surroundings of an organism |
| behavioral adaptation | actions taken by an animal that help them survive in its environment |
| structural adaptation | traits found naturally in an animal's body that help it to survive |
| niche | the role of an animal or plant in its environment |
| producers | an organism that makes its own food |
| consumers | an organism that eats food |
| life cycle | the stages of growth and change in an organism |
| ecology | the study of how living and nonliving things interact |
| herbivore | animals that eat only plants |
| carnivore | animals that eat only animals |
| omnivore | animals that eat both plants and animals |
| decomposer | only living organism that breaks down dead plants |
| food chain | an arrangement of animals and plants that feeds on and gives energy through the life cycle |
| food web | a combination of several food chains that are connected at some point |
| population | organisms of the same kind that live in the same place |
| community | all organisms that live in a given area |
