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