| A | B |
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| Adaptation | Any trait of an organism that increases its chance of surviving and reproducing |
| Biotic | Living organisms |
| Abiotic | Nonliving |
| Individual | A single organism |
| Population | All the individuals of one kind (one species) in a specific area at one time |
| Community | All the interacting populations in a specific area |
| Ecosystem | A system of interacting organisms and nonliving factors in a specific area |
| Herbivores | An organism that eats ONLY plants |
| Carnivores | An organism that eats meat |
| Omnivores | A consumer that eats BOTH plants and animals |
| Producer | Usually herbivores, feeding on plants and fungus |
| Primary Consumer | Usually herbivores, feeding on plants and fungus |
| Secondary Consumer | Mainly carnivores, eat other animals |
| Tertiary Consumer | Usually omnivores, eat primary/secondary consumers (could be top of the food chain) |
| Quaternary Consumer | Top of the food chain in its location, will eat lower consumers (primary, secondary, tertiary, and producers) |
| Decomposers | An organism that consumes (“eats”) parts of dead organisms and transfers all the biomass into simple chemicals (breaks down in to simple chemicals) |
