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Ecosystems
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Term | Definition |
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Herbivores | Animals that depend on plants to get energy or to survive. |
Carnivores | Animals that depend on meat to get energy or to survive. |
Omnivores | Animals that depend on either meat or plants to get energy or survive |
Organisms | An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form. |
Producers | An living organisms that produces or make plants or food. |
Decomposers | An living organism that breaks down dead organisms. |
Scavengers | An organism (plants or animals) that waits for its prey to die and then eats its remainings. |
Herb | Plants. |
Omni | Everything. |
Carni | Meat |
Predator | An animal that naturally preys on others. |
Prey | An animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food. |
Biotic Factors | The living components (organisms) that shape up the environment. |
Abiotic Factors | A non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment. |
Consumers | An organism, usually an animal, that feeds on plants or other animals. |
Terrestrial Ecosystem | A land-based community of organisms. |
Aquatic Ecosystem | An ecosystem in a body of water. |
Food Chains | The path of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem. |
Food Webs | Overlapping food chains with different pathways for the flow of food energy in an ecosystem. |
Energy Pyramid | A diagram that shows the amount of energy passed on at each level of a food chain. |
Competition | The struggle of organisms against each other to get the same resource. |
Natural Resources | Materials in the environment that useful to people. |
Population | All the organisms of the same species that love in the same place at the same time. |
Community | Populations of different kinds of organisms that live in the same place at the same time. |
Habitat | The environment where an organism lives. |
Estuary | A place where fresh water from a river empties into the ocean and mixes with it. |
Brackish | Slightly salty, as is the mixture of river water and seawater in estuaries. |