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| habitat | an organism’s own unique place to live. |
| producer | a living thing that uses the energy from sunlight to make its own food. |
| community | all the populations in an ecosystem. |
| consumer | a living thing that gets its energy by eating other living things. |
| decomposer | gets its energy by breaking down material from dead plants and animals |
| competition | the struggle between organisms for the same resources. |
| herbivore | consumer that eats only or mostly plants |
| energy pyramid | a model that shows how much energy flows through a food web. |
| carnivore | consumer that eats only animals |
| omnivore | consumer that eats both plants and animals |
| population | a group of living things of the same kind living in the same area |
| ecosystem | made up of all living things and non-living things in a certain area. |
| food chain | shows a path of energy as it flows from one living thing to the next |
| food web | is plants and animals in several food chains linked together. |
| predator | is an animal that hunts another animal for food. |
| prey | an animal that is hunted by another animal for food. |
| adaptation | is a feature that helps a living thing survive in the place where it lives. |
| migration | is an adaption where you move from one place to another in a pattern |
| mimicry | an adaptation in which one kind of living thing has similar traits to another. |
| resource | things needed to survive (food, water, shelter) |
| camouflage | an adaptation that helps a living thing hide |
| fossil | any evidence of an organism that lived in the past |
| hibernation | an adaptation that requires the animal to live off its body fat and use very little energy |
| extinct | living thing that no longer exists. All members have died out. |
