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Bulldawg Unit 6
Unit 6 Investigating Ecosystems Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Community | populations that live in the same place at the same time |
| Consumer | An organism that eats other organisms (plants and / or animals) for food |
| Decomposer | An organism that gets energy by feeding on dead materials and waste |
| Ecosystem | The living and nonliving components of an environment |
| Food Chain | representation of the flow of energy from the Sun through producers to consumers and decomposers in an ecosystem |
| Perish | to die |
| Population | all of the organisms of the same species that live in the same place at the same time |
| Predator | An animal that naturally preys on others |
| Prey | An animal that is hunted and killed by another for food |
| Producer | an organism that makes its own food ( e.g., plants) |
| Thrive | to live, grow, and reproduce succesfully |