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Animals | A living organism that can move and find food. |
Plants | A living organism that uses the sun's energy to make its own food. |
Decomposers | A living organism that breaks down dead plants and animals. |
Ecosystem | A specific area where living and non-living organisms interact with one another. |
Producer | A plant. Uses the sun's energy to make food. |
Consumer | An animal. Eats plants or other animals to get energy. |
Scavenger | Finds and eats dead organisms. |
Predator | Hunts living animals to eat them. |
Prey | Hunted by predators and eaten. |
Herbivore | An animal that only eats plants. |
Carnivore | An animal that only eats other animals. |
Omnivore | An animal that eats both plants and animals. |
Interactions | The effect that two or more organisms have on each other. |
Competition | When organisms fight over the same resources (food, water, shelter, mates) |
Food | Something eaten by an animal. A resource needed to survive. |
Water | Liquid an animal drinks. A resource needed to survive. |
Shelter | A place to hide. A resource needed to survive. |
Mate | Another of the same kind to reproduce with. A resource needed for the species to survive. |
Mutualism | A relationship between two organisms. Benefits both of them. |
Commensalism | A relationship between two organisms. Benefits one, the other is neutral. |
Parasitism | A relationship between two organisms. Benefits one, harms the other. |
Harmful | Something that can cause sickness or death to an organism. |
Beneficial | Something that helps the organisms stay healthy and alive. |
Tolerance | An organism's ability to survive in difficult conditions. |
Food Web | A diagram that shows the flow of food, mass and energy in an ecosystem. |
Impact | The effect that one thing has on another. |