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Ecosystems Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | A biological community of interacting of organisms and their physical environment |
| Organism | An individual animal, plant, or a single - celled life form |
| Population | All the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country. |
| Community | an interacting group of various species in a common location. |
| Bioshere | The regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere and the earth or analogous parts of other planets occupied by living organisms. |
| Biotic - factors | A living organism that shapes it environment. |
| Abiotic | Nonliving, as in antibiotic factor, which is a nonliving physical and chemical attribute of a system, for example light, temperature, wind patterns. |
| Producer | Plants that make their own food through. sunlight, air, and water. |
| Consumer | animals that get their energy by eating plants or other animals. |
| Decomposer | organism that breaks down dead organic material. |