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| community | the different populations of living things that live together in an environment |
| habitat | a place where a population of plants or animals live and interact with the environment |
| niche | the role an animal has in the community |
| food chain | the path by which energy is passed form one living thing to another |
| food web | the combined food chains in a habitat or ecosystem |
| predator | an animal that captures and kills its food |
| prey | an animal that is caught by its predator |
| producer | living things, such as plants, that make their own food |
| consumer | living things that get their energy from other living things |
| decomposer | living things that get their eneragy from breaking down the bodies of dead things |
| herbivore | a consumer that eats a producer |
| carnivore | a consumer that eats other consumers |
| omnivore | animals that eat both producers and consumers |
| adaptation | a changing to fit different conditions |
| succession | a series of changes in an ecosystem |
| interdependence | things that are dependent upon each other |
| ecology | the science that deals with the relation of living things to their envioronment |
