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| Adaptation | a structure or behavior that helps an organism survive in its surroundings |
| Carnivore | an animal that eats other animals |
| Community | populations of different kinds of organisms that live in the same place at the same time |
| Consumer | an organism that gets energy by eating other organisms |
| Decomposer | an organism that gets energy by feeding on dead things and waste products |
| Ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things that interact with each other in an environment |
| Energy Pyramid | a diagram that shows the amount of energy passed on at each level of a food chain |
| Environment | the surroundings that and organism lives in |
| Food Chain | the transfer of food energy from one organism to another in a ecosystem |
| Food Web | the overlapping of food chains |
| Habitat | the place where a plant or animal lives |
| Herbivore | an animal that eats plants |
| Life Cycle | the stages of growth and development that an organism goes through in its lifetime |
| Nucleus of a cell | the structure in a cell that controls everything the cell does |
| Organ | a group of different tissues that work together to perform a particular function in an organism |
| Organism | a living thing |
| Photosynthesis | plants use the sun’s energy |
| Population | all the organisms of the same species that live in the same place at the same time |
| Predator | an animal that hunts |
| Prey | an animal that is hunted |
| Producer | an organism that makes its own food—plants are a type of producer—they make their own food by photosynthesis |
