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12345Ecosystem
5th grade science
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ecosystem | all living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions |
| population | a group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time |
| community | different populations in a certain area |
| niche | a role in an ecosystem, which includes what type of food the organism takes in, how it gets its food, and which of the other species use the organism as food |
| habitat | a place that provides all the things an organism needs to live |
| predator | an animal that hunts and eats another animal for energy |
| prey | an animal that is hunted by another animal for food |
| producer | plants and some other organisms that make their own food for energy |
| consumer | organisms that can’t make their own food, but get their energy from producers or other consumers |
| pollution | any substance that harms or damages the environment |
| conservation | an attempt to protect or preserve an environment from changes that can be harmful to it |
| organism | an individual animal, plant, or single—celled life form |
| respire | making food into energy |
| biotic | all living organisms in an ecosystem |
| abiotic | the name given to non-living organisms |
| biome | large ecosystems with the same climate and organisms |
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