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Ecosystems
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abiotic | all of the nonliving parts of an ecosystem |
| biotic | all of the living parts of an ecosystem |
| environment | area made up of biotic and abiotic factors |
| examples of abiotic factors | wind, temperature, soil |
| examples of biotic factors | plants, animals, bacteria |
| mutualism | relationship in which both organisms depend on each other and both benefit |
| parasitism | an organism that lives in or on another organism (the host) and obtains nourishment from the host but provides nothing back to that host |
| commensalism | relationship between two organisms in which one benefits and the other is not affected |
| food web | shows the feeding relationship among organisms |
| decomposers | organisms which carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms |
| primary consumers | consumer that is a herbivore, it only eats producers for energy. |
| secondary consumers | carnivores that only eat herbivores (plant eaters) |
| teitary consumers | Carnivores that eat other carnivores |
| sun | source of energy in most ecosystems |
| trophic levels | Producers, Herbivores, Primary Consumers, Secondary Consumers |
| flash flood | a flood in which the water rises suddenly |
| hurricane | a storm with strong winds and rain that forms over tropical waters (related term: typhoon, tropical cyclone) |
| consumer | an organism that eats other living things to get energy; an organism that does not produce its own food (related word: consume) |
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