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| community | plants and animals that are interdependent and share the same habitat (ecosystem) |
| consumer | a living thing that must eat other living things for food (energy) |
| ecosystem | an area in which living and nonliving things interact |
| environment | all the things (living and non-living) such as climate, weather, other animals, trees, rocks, etc. that surround a living thing |
| food pyramid | the six groups of food we should eat everyday in order to stay healthy |
| food chain | the path of energy transfer from on living organism to another in an ecosystem |
| food web | the overlapping food chains that link producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem |
| habitat | a type of environment in which an organism lives |
| hibernation | passing the winter in a hidden or sleeping state |
| inderdependent | dependent upon one another |
| life cycle | the series of changes each living thig goes through from birth to death |
| mammal | a warm blooded animal with a backbone. Females produce milk to feed their young |
| migration | when a group of animals travel from one region to another |
| orgnism | a living plant or animal |
| population | a group of the same kind of organisms (species) that live in an area |
| producer | a living thing that makes its own food |
| ecology | the study of the interrelationships of plants and animals to one another and to the environment |
