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Define herbivore.
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A consumer/organism that only eats plants.
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Define carnivore.
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A consumer/organism that only eats meat.
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Define omnivore.
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A consumer/organism that eats both plants and meat.
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Define scavenger.
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a consumer/organism that eats dead or decaying animals.
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Define producer.
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An organism that is able to produce food for itself, often through photosynthesis.
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Define consumer.
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An organism that relies on food in the surrounding area for nutrition, either from plants or animals. It cannot make its own food, therefore it must eat other organisms.
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Define ecology.
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The study of relationships of organisms to each other and their surrounding environment.
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Define organism.
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An individual living thing.
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Define population.
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A group of individuals of the same species living in a specific location.
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Define community.
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All the living things in a specific location.
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Define ecosystem.
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All the interactings parts of a biological community and its surrounding environment. ->Characterized by distinctive set of biotic and abiotic factors.
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Give 3 examples of a biotic factor.
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Dead fish, tree, bacteria.
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Give 3 examples of an abiotic factor.
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water, pollution, oxygen, temperature.
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Define sustainable.
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Relatively constant set of characteristics over a long period time without any external inputs.
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Define dynamic.
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Constantly changing.
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