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Ecosysyms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Biotic | living organisms that are part of an environment. |
| Abiotic | non-living factors in an environment such as temperature, light, water, and nutrients |
| Ecosystem | made up of the interaction of all living organisms (like animals, plants, and bugs) in an area with all of the non-living organisms (like water, dirt, rocks, and the sun). |
| habitat | the home of an animal or a plant. |
| Organism | a living thing that can function on its own |
| Population | the number of people living in a certain place. |
| Community | a group of people living or working together in the same area. |
| Bioshpere | Earth's living things |
| Producer | create, or produce, goods and provide services |
| Consumer | the people who buy goods and services. |
| Decomposer | an organism (as a bacterium or a fungus) that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter. |
| Herbivore | an organism that feeds mostly on plants |
| Carnivore | an organism that eats mostly meat, or the flesh of animals |
| Scavenger | any animal that eats refuse and decaying organic matter. |
| grassland | grasslands are open and continues they are also fairly flat areas of grass. |
| rainforest | rainforests have dense canopies of vegetation that form three diferent layers. They also have very tropical weather and lots of preciitation. |
| desert | some deserts are mountaianous while others are dry expanses of rock, sand, or salt flats. the desert is very hot whith little precipitation |
| omnivore | an organism that eats both meat and vegetatiion |
| predator | an organism that eats another organism |
| prey | an organism that is eaten |
| niche | an organism that has a role in it's ecosystem |
| biome | A biome is a large area characterized by its vegetation, soil, climate, and wildlife. |
| Terrestrial Ecosystem | a land-based community of organisms and the interactions of biotic and abiotic |
| Deciduous Forest | a tye of forest that has trees that leaves fall and change color |
| Grassland | a flat open land with lots of grass |
| Rainforest | an ecosystem that has tropical weather and lots of greenery and plants |
| Desert | a very hot ecosystem coverd with sand |
| Aquatic ecosystem | an ecosystem that is coverd or in water |
| freshwater | water without salt |
| Saltwater ecosystem | water that has salt in it |
| Pond | a small body of water surrounded by land |
| Lake | a larger body of water surounded by land |
| River/Stream | a flowing body of water that flows to a much larger body of water |
| Ocean | a saltwater body of water. it is the largest tye of body of water |
| Saltmarsh | a body of land that has been flooded by water |
| Estuary | where saltwater and freshwater meeet and flow into the larger body of water |
| Food Chain | the order in which organisms, or living things, depend on each other for food |
| Primary consumer | animals that eat plants. |
| Secondary consumer | those that consume the primary consumers (herbivores) |
| Tertiary consumer | those that eats the secondary consumers |
| Trophic levels | |
| Autotroph | |
| Heterotroph |
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