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Ecosystem
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| environment | all of the living and nonliving things surrounding an organism |
| ecostystem | a community and its physical environment together |
| population | all the individuals of the same kind living in the same ecosystem |
| community | all the populations of organisms living together in an environment |
| producer | a living thing, such as a plant, that can make its own food |
| consumer | a living thing that can't make its own food and must eat other living things |
| herbivore | an animal that eats only plants, and producers |
| carnivore | an animal that eats only other animals |
| omnivore | an animal that eats both plants and other animals |
| decomposer | a living thing that feeds on the wastes of plants and animals |
| habitat | an environment that meets the needs of an organism |
| niche | the role of an organism in its habitat |
| food chain | a series of organisms that depend on one another for food |
| prey | consumers that are eaten by predators |
| predator | a consumer that eats prey |
| food web | a group of food chains that overlap |
| energy pyramid | a diagram showing how much energy is passed from one organism to the next in a food chain |
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