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Ecosystems
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Biotic | A living thing as an animal or plant that influences or affects an ecosystem |
| Abiotic | a nonliving condition or thing such as climate or habitat that influences or affects an ecosystem and the organisms |
| Producers | an organism usually an animal that feeds on plants or other animals |
| Predator | Any organism that exists by preying on other organisms |
| Prey | An animal hunted or seized for food especially by a carnivorous animal |
| Niche | The role or job that an organism plays in a habitat |
| Ecosystem | a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. |
| Habitat | the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism. |
| Organism | an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form. |
| Population | all the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country. |
| Community | a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. |
| Biosphere | the region on, above, and below the Earth's surface where life exists. |
| Consumer | a person or thing that eats or uses something. |
| Decomposer | an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material. |
| Herbivore | an animal that feeds on plants. |
| Carnivore | an animal that feeds on flesh. |
| Omnivore | an animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin. |
| Scavenger | a person who searches for and collects discarded items. |
| Biome | an area classified according to the species that live in that location |
| Terrestrial Ecosystem | a land based community of organisms and the interactions of biotic and abiotic components in a given area |
| Deciduous Forest | characterized by trees that lose their leaves at the end of each growing season. |
| Grassland | a large open area of country covered with grass, especially one used for grazing. |
| Rainforest | a tropical woodland with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches (254 centimeters) and marked by lofty broad-leaved evergreen trees forming a continuous canopy. |
| Desert | any large, extremely dry area of land with sparse vegetation. |
| Aquatic Ecosystem | an ecosystem in a body of water |
| Freshwater | water that does not contain any salt, especially water found in lakes and rivers |
| Pond | a quiet body of water shallow enough that plants often grow all the way across it |
| Lake | A body of water, that is surrounded by land |
| River/Stream | A body of water that flows on Earth's surface |
| Food Chain | the order of events in an ecosystem, where one living organism eats another organism, and later that organism is consumed by another larger organism. |
| Primary Consumer | an organism that eats plants and provides the energy needed for other types of consumers to use. |
| Secondary Consumer | largely carnivores that feed on the primary consumers or herbivores. |
| Tertiary Consumer | animals that consume other animals to obtain nutrition from them. |
| Trophic Levels | the position of an organism in the food chain |
| Autotroph | an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals. |
| Heterotroph | an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients. |
| Food Webs | consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem |
| Energy Pyramid | a graphical representation of the energy found within the trophic levels of an ecosystem. |
| Competition | the act or process of trying to get or win something |
| Natural Resources | the resources that exist (on the planet) independent of human actions. |
| Estuary | a partially enclosed, coastal water body where freshwater from rivers and streams mixes with salt water from the ocean |
| Brackish | somewhat salty or briny, as the water in an estuary or salt marsh, which is not as salty as the sea but saltier than a river |
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