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Ecosystem | All the living and nonliving things that interact in an area |
Habitat | The place where an organism lives that provides needed things |
Biotic Factors | The living parts of an ecosystem |
Abiotic Factors | The nonliving parts of an ecosystem |
Species | Similar organisms that can produce fertile offspring |
Population | All the members of a species in an area |
Community | All the different populations present in an area |
Ecology | Study of how organisms interact with eachother and environment |
Natural Selection | Process where better-adapted organisms survive and reproduce |
Producer | An organism that can make its own food |
Consumer | An organism that gets its energy by feeding on other organisms |
Herbivore | A consumer that eats only plants |
Carnivore | A consumer that eats only animals |
Omnivore | A consumer that eats both plants and animals |
Decomposer | An organism that gets its energy by consuming wastes and dead organisms |
Scavenger | Carnivore that feeds on previously killed organisms |