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Ecosystems Week 1
| 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. |
| Abiotic | All of the nonliving parts of an ecosystem. |
| 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. |
| Habitat | The location in which an organism lives. |