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Ecosystems
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| organism | a living thing |
| habitat | the place that an organism needs to live,grow,and reproduce |
| biotic factors | animals,plants,and other organisms |
| abiotic factors | water,sunlight,oxygen,temperature,and soil |
| photosynthesis | the food-making procces |
| producer | an organism that can make its own food |
| consumer | gets energy by eating other organisms |
| herbivores | are consumers that eat only plants |
| carnivores | are consumers that eat only animals |
| omnivores | are consumers that eat both plants and animals |
| decomposer | an organism that gets energy by eating wastes and dead organisms |
| food chain | shows a series of organisms that eat other organisms |
| food web | is made up of many food chains in an ecosystem |
| enregy pyramid | is a diagram in the shape of a pyramid |
| biome | is a group of land ecosystems |
| first level consumer | the consumer that eats the producer |
| second level consumer | the consumer that eats the first level consumer |