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  • The physical place where an organism lives
    habitat
  • The special role or job of a living thing in its environment.
    niche
  • Able to recover or bounce back after something bad happens.
    resilient
  • Animals that eat only other animals.
    carnivores
  • The ability to recover from a disturbance or change.
    resilience
  • Living things, like plants, that make their own food using sunlight.
    producers
  • A group of different living things living in the same place.
    community
  • animals that feed on the bodies of dead organisms.
    scavengers
  • Animals that eat only plants.
    herbivores
  • the study of how organisms interact with each other and environment
    ecology
  • To change in order to survive in a new situation.
    adapt
  • Something that interrupts or changes the normal way an ecosystem works (like a fire or flood)
    disturbance
  • Substances that help plants and animals grow and stay healthy.
    nutrients
  • Cutting down large areas of trees.
    deforesstation
  • A group of the same kind of living things.
    species
  • Living things that eat plants or animals.
    consumers
  • Harmful things put into the air, water, or land.
    pollution
  • A community of living and non-living things that work together in an environment.
    ecosystem
  • The organism that is hunted and eaten by a predator
    prey
  • An organism that hunts other organisms to live.
    predator
  • A small, enclosed environment for plants and animals, often inside glass.
    terrarium
  • non-living
    abiotic
  • A chain that shows how the organisms are related with each other by the food they eat.
    food chain
  • living
    biotic
  • Living things, like bacteria and fungi, that break down dead plants and animals.
    decomposers
  • Animals that eat both plants and animals.
    omnivores
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