definitions

Question 1

habitat

Answer 1

a place where an organism makes its home,

Question 2

population

Answer 2

all the members of a single species that live in a habitat

Question 3

community

Answer 3

all the populations of a different organism that live together in a habitat

Question 4

ecosystem

Answer 4

community of animals , plants , micro organisms , non living things and their shared environment .

Question 5

niche

Answer 5

the role an organism plays in a community .

Question 6

biodiversity

Answer 6

total variation between all living things

Question 7

herbivore

Answer 7

an animal that feeds on plants

Question 8

carnivore

Answer 8

an animal that feeds on other animals

Question 9

omnivore

Answer 9

an animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin

Question 10

predator

Answer 10

an animal that preys on others

Question 11

prey

Answer 11

an animal that is hunted and killed by another for food

Question 12

food chain

Answer 12

a series of organisms each dependant on the next as a source of food

Question 13

food web

Answer 13

a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains

Question 14

abiotic factor

Answer 14

a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment like temperature and sunlight

Question 15

biotic factor

Answer 15

the living parts of an ecosystem like predation