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| habitat | an environment where a group of organisms live together |
| food chain | how each living thing gets food and how nutrients are passed from creature to creature |
| food web | shows how energy is transferred among organisms in an ecosystem |
| producers (plants) | they can produce their own food-using light energy |
| consumers | animals are consumers-they cannot make their own food |
| decomposers | they consume (eat) decaying matter-dead plants and animals |
| carnivore | animals that ONLY eat meat/animals |
| omnivore | animals that eat BOTH PLANTS & ANIMALS |
| herbivore | animals that eat ONLY PLANTS |
| predator | an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food |
| scavenger | eats animals that are already dead |
| prey | an animal that is hunted |
| ecosystem | a group of living things and their non-living environment,lake/desert |
| succession | a series of changes in the community in which a plant or animal lives |
| ecology | the study of how living and non living things affect each other |
| environment | everything that surrounds and affects a living thing |
| climax | the last stage in the process of succession |
| niche | the role that each living things plays in a habitat |
| population | a group of the same kind of living thind in a community |
| pioneer | the first stage in succession |
| community | all the plants and animals that live and interact with each other in a place |
| decomposer | uses up what the scavenger leaves behind |
| photosynthesis | green plants make/produce their own food/producers |
| life processes | activities that keep living things alive |
