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Environment
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is an ecosystem? | Abiotic and biotic factors interacting together in an environment |
| A group of the same type of organism is | population |
| Different types of organisms in the same environment are | community |
| Non-living factors in an ecosystem are | abiotic |
| Living factors in an ecosystem are | biotic |
| Factors that limit the growth of a population of organisms in an ecosystem are | limiting factors |
| The transfer on energy from one organism to the next | food chain |
| Many different paths of energy transfer in an ecosystem | food web |
| These organisms hunt for their food | consumers |
| These organisms make their own food | producers |
| The role of these organisms is to break down organic material and return the nutrients back to the soil | decomposers |
| These consumers eat meat | carnivore |
| These consumers eat plants | herbivore |
| These consumers eat both plants and animals | omnivore |
| The consumer that hunts | predator |
| The organism that is hunted | prey |
| An organism that lives on the body of another organism for food | parasite |
| The organism that allows parasites to use their body for food. | Host |
| Organisms that can be seen only under a microscope | micro-organism |
| Weather, disease, predators, pollution, water, and space | Examples of limiting factors |
| They point to the organism that is receiving the energy. | Arrows |