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Bio Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Population | Group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area |
| Producer | Organism that can capture energy from the sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce food from inorganic compounds, also called an autotroph |
| Decomposer | Organism that breaks down and obtains energy from dead organic matter |
| Trophic level | Step in a food chain or food web |
| Ecological pyramid | Diagram that shows the relative amounts of energy or matter within each tropic level in a food chain or food web |
| Food chain | Series of steps,in an ecosystem in which organisms transfer energy by eating or being eaten |
| Limiting nutrient | Single nutrient that either is scarce or cycles very slowly, limiting the growth of organisms in an ecosystem |
| Ecosystem | Collection of all the organisms that live in a particular place, together with their non-living environment |
| Consumer | Organism that relies on other organisms for its energy and food supply, also called a heterotroph |
| Community | Assemblage of different populations that love together In a defined area |