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Ecosystems
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | Area for all the living and Non-living organisms |
| Biotic Factors | The living parts of an ecosystem |
| Abiotic Factors | Nonliving things in ecosystems |
| Organisms | A single form of life; the simplest form of organization in ecology organization in ecology. |
| Populations | All members of one kind of organism that live in a particular area |
| Communites | A group of different populations of organisms |
| Niche | The unique role an organism plays in the ecosysem |
| Food Chain | The flow of energy from one organism to the next. |
| Food Web | Shows the interactions among many different food chains in a single ecosystem. |
| Producer | Organism that can create its own food through the process of photosynthesis |
| Consumer | Organism that feeds on other organisms or organic matter because it cannot make its own food |
| decomposer | Organisms that break down dead plants and animals into nutrients for the soil |
| Scavenger | The animal that feeds off dead or decaying matter |