| A | B |
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| Predator | Living things that catch, kill, and eat other living things. |
| Mutualism | Both organisms benefit |
| Environment | Consists of all living and nonliving things with which an organism can interact. |
| Community | All of the different organisms that live together in an area. |
| Niche | Role of an organism in the community. |
| Prey | Organisms that are eaten by predators. |
| Parasitism | One organism benefits, the other is harmed. |
| Producer | Can make their own food. The source of all food in an ecosystem. |
| Commensalism | One organsim benefits, one organism is not harmed. |
| Consumer | An organism that feeds directly or indirectly on Producers. |
| Scavenger | Eats the meat of dead animals. |
| Population | A group of organisms of the same type or species, living together in the same area. |
| Carnivore | Meat eater. |
| Decomposer | Organisms that break down dead organisms into simpler, more usable substances. |
| Herbivore | Plant eater. |
| Symbiosis | A close relationship between two organisms in which one organism lives near, on, or even inside another organism and at least one organism benefits. |
| Omnivore | Eats both Plants and Meat. |
| Food Chain | A series of events in which food and energy are transferred from one organism to another. |
