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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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