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ecosystem | The living and nonliving things in an environment and all their interactions. |
community | The living part of an ecosystem. |
population | One type of organism living in an area. |
organism | Any living thing. |
niche | the (role) job an organism has in its habitat |
producer | An organism that makes its own food. |
consumer | Any organism that eats food producers make or eats other consumers. |
habitat | The home of an organism. |
carnivore | A consumer that eats only animals. |
herbivore | A consumer that eats only plants |
omnivore | A consumer that eats animals and plants. |
predator | Living things that hunt other living things. |
prey | an organism that is hunted and eaten by a predator |
food chain | the steps in which organisms get the food they need to survive |
food web | The pattern that shows how food chains are related. |
sun | he original source of energy in an ecosystem |