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Ecosystems 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Niche | The role or the job an organism plays in its environment |
| Fossil | the remains or traces of plants and animals that lived a long time ago, provide evidence of once living things |
| Species | A group of closely related organisms that are very similar to each other and are capable of producing offspring |
| Compete | To strive for something (food, shelter, water, etc) |
| Population | A group of the same organism that live in a certain place |
| Community | all of the different populations of living things that interact with one another in an area. ... For example, a forest community contains trees, plants, mammals, insects, earthworms, and many tiny living things, such as fungi and bacteria, in the soil. |
| Interdependence | how living and non-living things depend on one another |
| Decay | to rot or become rotted. |
| Benefit | a good or helpful result or effect |
| Impact | something that happens because of a cause |