Chapter 4 Lessons 1 & 2

a living thing

• animal
• plant
• inanimate object
• organism

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an environment that provides that things a specific organism needs to live

• ecosystem
• territory
• shelter
• habitat

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the living or once living thing that interacts with an organism

• biotic factor

• abiotic factor

• water
• environment

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the nonliving parts of an organism's habitat

• organic factors
• abiotic factors
• living parts
• biotic factors

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a group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring

• family
• breed
• genus
• species

all members of one species living in a particular area

• community
• habitat
• ecosystem
• population

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all the different populations that live together in an area

• community
• society
• neighborhood
• individuals

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the community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving environment

• community
• ecosystem

• species

• population

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the study of how organisms interact with each other & their environment

• ecology
• biology
• physics
• chemistry

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If a cat eats a mouse that eats grass, the cat is a...

• producer

• second-level consumer

• decomposer

• first-level consumer

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