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ecosystems
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| organism | Any individual living thing. |
| ecosystem | All the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other. |
| biotic | All of the living parts of an ecosystem. (plants, animals, and bacteria) |
| abiotic | All of the nonliving parts of an ecosystem. (rain, sunlight, temperature) |
| consumer | An organism that eats other living things to get energy; an organism that does not produce its own food. |
| producer | An organism that makes its own food; an organism that does not consume other plants or animals. |
| decomposer | Organisms which carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms. |
| community | A group of different populations that live together and interact in an environment. |
| population | A group of organisms of the same species that share a habitat and can breed with each other. (All the raccoons, all the pine trees, all the bunnies) |
| habitat | The location in which an organism lives. (where the raccoons live) |