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ecosystem
ecosystem vocabulary words
Question | Answer |
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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 |