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vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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habitat | the place where an organism lives |
ecologay | the study of interactions between organiams and their envirment |
population | all the members of a species living in teh same place |
community | a group of differnet populations living in the same place and interactions with each other |
ecosystem | a community and all the nonliving (abiotic) things that the community interacts with |
abiotic | nonliving |
biotic | living |
food chain | the path of food through a community |
producer | an organism that makes it's own food |
consumer | an organism that eats other organisms |
decomposer | an organism that breaks down and obsorbs nutrients from dead matter |
food web | a group of food chains that are linked to each other |
natural resource | a substance found in nature that is useful to humans |
conservation | the wise and careful use of natural resources |
recycling | when you reuse something like: paper, you can use the back |
organism | any living thing or one living thing |
biology | the study of all organisms |
botany | the study of plants |
zoology | the study of animals |
genetics | the study of how parents look like their offsprings,children. |
microbiology | the study of organisms too small to be seen by the eye alone |
characteristiscs | a quality or feature of a person of thing |
reproduce | to make more of one owns kind of organism |
asexual reproduction | to reproduce with one parent |
sexual reproduction | to reproduce with 2 parents |
life span | the amount of time an organism is likely to live |