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ecosystems week 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1. organism | Any individual living thing. |
| 2. ecosystem | All the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other. |
| 3. biotic | All of the living parts of an ecosystem. |
| 4. abiotic | All of the nonliving parts of an ecosystem. |
| 5. consumer | An organism that eats other living things to get energy; an organism that does not produce its own food. |
| 6. producer | An organism that makes its own food; an organism that does not consume other plants or animals. |
| 7. decomposer | Organisms which carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms. |
| 8. community | A group of different populations that live together and interact in an environment. |
| 9. population | A group of organisms of the same species that share a habitat and can breed with each other. |
| 10. habitat | The location in which an organism lives |