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Ecosystem terms and def
Term | Description |
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Organism | Any living thing. |
Individual | One single organism |
Population | All of the individuals of one kind in a specified area at one one time. |
Community | All the interacting populations in a specified area. |
Ecosystem | A system of interacting organisms AND nonliving factors in a specified area. |
Biotic | Living organisms and products of organisms. |
Abiotic | Nonliving. |
Aquatic | Of the water. |
Terrestrial | Of the land. |
Decomposer | An organism that consumes dead organisms. |
Tufa Tower | A naturally occurring, gray, lumpy structure that forms under water in a salt lake because of a chemical reaction between calcium and salt in the water. |
Food Web | All the feeding relationships in an ecosystem. |
Consumer | An organism that eats other organisms. |
Producer | An organism that is able to produce its own food through photosynthesis. |
Photosynthesis | The process by which producers make energy-rich molecules (food) from water and carbon dioxide in the presence of light. |