Ecosystems Word Scramble
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ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things that interact with one another |
population | all the members of the same type of oraganism living in an ecosystem |
Organism | A living thing |
Species | A single kind of organism, one type of plant or animal such as dandelions or cows |
community | a group of living things of different species found in an ecosystem |
habitat | the natural environment that meets all the need of an organism where it lives |
niche | role or job of an organism in its habitat |
carnivore | meat eater |
producers | organism that makes its own food from raw materials and energy (plants) |
omnivores | plant and meat eaters |
decomposers | breaks down dead plants and animals into useful things like nutrients and minerals that enrich the soil |
scavengers | animals that eat the remains of dead animals |
predators | animal that hunts and eats other animals |
herbivore | plant eaters |
consumers | organism that gets energy by eating food (plants or other animals), not producing its own food |
food web | description of all the food chains in an ecosystem |
food chain | The movement or flow of energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem |
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