| Term | Definition |
|---|
| mutation | a change caused by genes in an organism |
| offspring | a parent's child |
| adaptations | changes organisms make in order to survive |
| natural selection | a process with many changes over time that help an organism survive |
| community | the group of all the populations in an area |
| cycle | a repeating process or flow of materials through a system |
| ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things in an area |
| energy pyramid | a diagram showing the flow of energy through a food chain |
| habitat | the place in an ecosystem where an organism lives |
| niche | the job that an organism has in an ecosystem |
| population | a group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time |
| producer | an organism that makes its own food |
| consumer | an organism that eats other organisms for energy |
| decomposer | an organism that breaks down other organisms |
| food chain | a simple path of energy from one organism to another |
| herbivore | plant eater |
| carnivore | meat eater |
| photosynthesis | process a plant uses to change sunlight to energy |
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