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ecosystems
Science
Term | Definition |
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Biotic factors | a living thing, as an animal or plant, that influences or affects an ecosystem. |
Abiotic factors | a non-living condition or thing such as climate or habitats that influences or affects an ecosystem and the in it. |
Producers | an organism as a plant that is able to produce its own food from inorganic substances. |
Consumers | an organism usually an animal that feeds on plants or other animals |
Decomposer | an organism usually a bacterium or fungus that breaks down the cells |
Herbivore | animals that get their energy by only eating producers or plants |
Carnivore | animals that get their energy by only eating other consumers |
Omnivore | animals that get their energy by eating both producers and consumers |
Predator | any organism that exists by preying on other organisms |
Prey | an animal haunted or seized for food especially by a carnivorous animals |
Terrestrial ecosystem | a land-based community of organisms |
Aquatic ecosystem | an ecosystem in a body of water |
Food chains | the path of food organism to another in an ecosystem |
Food webs | overlapping food chains with different Pathways for the flow of food energy in an ecosystem |
Energy pyramid | a diagram that shows the amount of energy passed on at each level of a food chain |
Competiton | the struggle of organisms against each other to get the same resource |
Natural resoures | materials in the environment that useful to people |
population | all the organisms of the same species that love in the same place at the same time |
Community | populations of different kinds of organisms that live in the same place at the same time |
Habitat | he environment where an organism live |
Estuary | a place where freshwater from a river empties into the ocean and mixes with it |
Brackish | slightly salty as is the mixture of a river water and the sea water in the estuaries |