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Ecosystems Wk. #1
Term | Definition |
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Ecosystem | all the living and non-living things that interact with each other in an environment. |
Organism | any living thing, plant, animal, fungus, bacteria, etc. |
Flow of energy | the transfer of energy through a food chain or web, beginning with the producer |
Food chain | the path of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem. |
Food web | a connection of food chains with many energy paths |
Producer | an organism that uses sunlight to make its own food for energy |
Consumer | organism that gets energy by eating other organisms |
Decomposer | an organism that gets energy by eating dead organisms |