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Ecosystems vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Biotic Factors | a living organism |
| Abiotic Factors | a nonliving oragnism |
| Ecosystem | all of the communities and their nonliving surroundings |
| Habitat | a type of place a population of an animal lives |
| Organism | one individual plant animal or bacteria |
| Population | all of one type of organism in an area |
| Community | all of the populations in one area |
| Biospere | the part of the earth that contains all the ecosystems |
| Producer | an organism that can create its own food with |
| Consumer | an organism that gets food from eating other organisms |
| Decomposer | an organism that gets food from breaking down other organisms waste products |
| Herbivore | what you call someone or something if they only eat plants |
| Carnivore | what you call someone or something if they only meat |
| Omnivore | what you call someone or something if they eat both plants and meat |
| Scavenger | an organism that gets food from eating dead organisms |
| Niche | the role an organism plays in a community |
| Predator | an animal that eats other animals |
| Prey | an animal that is eaten by other animals |
| Biome | areas of the earth that have similar plants, animals, and climate |
| Terrestrial Ecosystem | a land-based community of organisms |
| Deciduous Forest | A forest that is dominated by trees that lose their leaves in the fall |
| Aquatic Ecosystem | an ecosystem in a body of water |
| Freshwater | water found in ponds, lakes, rivers, streams, glaciers, icebergs, ice caps and sheets |
| Pond | small, still, land-based body of water formed by pooling inside a depression |
| Lake | a large body of water surrounded by land. |
| River | a ribbon-like body of water that flows downhill from the force of gravity |
| Stream | continuous body of running water |
| Saltwater Ecosystem | water that contains a high concentration of dissolved salts (mainly sodium chloride) |
| Ocean | body of salt water |
| Saltmarsh | coastal wetlands that are flooded and drained by salt water brought in by the tides |
| Estuary | the tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream |
| Food Chains | the path of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem |
| Food Web | overlapping food chains with different pathways for the flow of food energy in an ecosystem |
| Energy Pyramid | a diagram that shows the amount of energy passed on at each level of a food chain |
| Competition | the struggle of organisms against each other to get the same resource |
| Natural Resources | materials in the environment that useful to people |
| Habitat | the environment where an organisms lives |
| Brackish | slightly salty, as is the mixture of river water and seawater in estuaries. |
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