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ecosystem
ecosystem vocabulary words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | All the living and nonliving parts in an area |
| Ecology | The study of the relationship among living and nonliving parts of an area |
| Habitat | The place where a species lives |
| Niche | The role of a species in an ecosystem |
| Population | All of the members of one species that live in the same area |
| Community | All the populations living together in one area |
| Photosynthesis | The process by which plants use sunlight to make sugar from water and carbon dioxide |
| Producer | An organism that uses sunlight to make sugar from water and carbon dioxide |
| Consumer | An organism that consumes other organisms for food |
| Scavenger | An animal that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms |
| Decomposer | An organism that help s to break down and decay dead organisms and the waste of living organisms |
| Energy pyramid | A diagram that compares the amount of energy available at each position or level in the feeding order |
| Food web | A combination of all the food chains in a community |
| Photosynthesis | Energy from sunlight + carbon dioxide + water sugar + oxygen |
| Respiration | Sugar + oxygen carbon dioxide + water + energy |