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SciCh4vocab
Chapter 4 Lessons 1-4 words
Term | Definition |
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producer | living thing that makes it own food |
ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things in an environment and the many ways they interact |
consumer | living thing that eats other living things |
habitat | area or place where an organism lives in an ecosystem |
herbivore | animal that eats plants |
population | all the members of one species that live within an area of an ecosystem |
food chain | the transfer of energy from one organism to another by eating and being eaten |
food web | system of overlapping food chains in which the flow of energy branches out in many directions |
omnivore | animal that eats plants and other animals |
carnivore | animal that gets food by eating other animals |
decomposer | organism that breaks down plant and animal waste and remains |
competition | occurs when two or more living things need the same resources in order to survive |