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Ecosystems6th
Vocabulary of Ecosystems
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| environment | surroundings in which organisms live |
| biotic | living organisims |
| abiotic | nonliving parts of an ecosystem |
| niche | The role of an organism in an ecosystem |
| community | The population living in the same environment at the same time |
| population | organisms of the same species in the same environment |
| ecosystem | a community and the abiotic parts of its ecosystem |
| habitat | the part of an environment in which an organism lives |
| individual | a single organism in an environment |
| stability | the condition that exists when the changes in a system over time cancel each other out |
| system | a group of parts that work together as a unit |