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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| abiotic | a nonliving factor in an environment. (soil,air,forest fire, wind, water) |
| boiotic | a living element of environment. (insects, seeds, predators,prey) |
| bacteria | microorganisms that act as decomposers. |
| carbondioxide | a waste gas produced during cellar repiration plants us cobondioxide during photosynthesis to make food. |
| compete | to rely on or need the same resource as another organism. |
| consumers | an organism that cannot make its own food. Consumerseat other oranisms |
| decoposers | an organsim that breaks down plant and animal materials into simple chemicals |
| ecosytem | a community of organisms intcocting with each other and with the nonliving enviroment. |
| energy | what ceno need to do work. |
| fungi | an organism that lacks chlorophyll and gets nutrients from dead or living organism. |
| food chains | a descrption of feeding relationship between organisms in an enviroment. |
| food webs | the feeding relationships among all organism in an ecosytem. Arrows show the flow of matter and enery from organisms to another. |
| minerals | a nutrient that xylem tran sports to cells in a vanscalar plant. |
| phytopplankton | microscopic plant like organisms in aquatic eviroment that produce their own food. |
| producers | an organisms suck as a plant or algae that makes its own food. |