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Ecosystems Wk. #1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | all the living and non-living things that interact with each other in an environment. |
| Organism | any living thing, plant, animal, fungus, bacteria, etc. |
| Flow of energy | the transfer of energy through a food chain or web, beginning with the producer |
| Food chain | the path of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem. |
| Food web | a connection of food chains with many energy paths |
| Producer | an organism that uses sunlight to make its own food for energy |
| Consumer | organism that gets energy by eating other organisms |
| Decomposer | an organism that gets energy by eating dead organisms |
| Abiotic | the nonliving parts of an ecosystem: Soil, water, rock, minerals, sunlight (SWARMS) |
| Biotic | the living or once-living parts of an ecosystem |