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Ecosystems
Term | Definition |
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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 |