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final exam review
vocabulary and terms
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Science
6th Grade
06/02/2011

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Term
Population
Definition
All members of one species in a piticular area.
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Community
Definition
All the different populations that live together in an area
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Ecosystem
Definition
All the lliving things and nonliving things that interact in an area
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Compitition
Definition
struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources.
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Producers
Definition

An organism  that can make its own food.

    Example

  • plants
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Consumers
Definition
An organism that obtins energy by feeding off other organisms.
Term
Decomposers
Definition
an organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
Term
Omnivores
Definition
a consumer that eats both plants and animals.
Term
Carnivores
Definition
Consumer that eats only animals
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Herbivores
Definition
A comsumers thateats only plants.
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Scavenger
Definition
a carnivor that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
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Food web
Definition
The patern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
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Food Chain
Definition
a series of events in which one organism eats another.
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Energy Pyramid
Definition
a diergram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in the food web.
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Carbon and oxygen cycle
Definition
process in which carbon and oxygen are recycled
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Renewable Resource
Definition
a resource that is naturlly replaced in a relitively short time.
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Nonrenewable Resource
Definition
a resource that is not naturlly replaced in a relitively short time.
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Pollution
Definition
a change to the envierment that has a negitive effect on living things.
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