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Habitats
Term | Definition |
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Habitat | A place where a plant or an animal lives |
Organism | A single living thing |
Species | A type of living thing |
Community | A group of interacting species sharing a habitat |
Producers | Organisms that produce their own food |
Consumers | Organisms that consume food |
Decomposers | Organisms that break down plant and animal remains into soil nutrients |
Predator | Animals that hunt and eat other animals |
Prey | Animals that are hunted and eaten by other animals |
Herbivore | Animals that eat only plants |
Carnivore | Animals that eat only other animals |
Omnivore | Animals that eat both plants and other animals |
Adaptation | Characteristics that help an animal survive in its environment |
Camouflage | Colors or patterns that blend with an organism’s environment |
Ecology | The study of the interactions between organisms and their environments |
Ecosystem | A system of organisms and environment working together |
Paleontologist | Scientist that excavates, or digs and removes, fossils from the surrounding rock |
Fossils | Preserved remains of plants or animals |