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Ecosystems Week 1
Term | Definition |
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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 |