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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Biotic | all living things |
| Abiotic | non living things |
| Organism | an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form |
| Population | the whole number of people or inhabitants in a country or region |
| Community | a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. |
| Ecosystem | a community of living organisms |
| Biosphere | the regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth |
| A chemical process that occurs in plants, algae, and some types of bacteria, when they are exposed to sunlight | |
| Producer | a person, company, or country that makes, grows, or supplies goods or commodities for sale. |
| Cellular Respiration | A chemical process in which oxygen is used to make energy from carbohydrates |
| Consumer | a person or thing that eats or uses something. |
| 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. |
| Trophic Levels | the position of an organism in the food chain |
| Food Chain | a series of organisms that eat one another so that energy and nutrients flow from one to the next. |
| Food Web | a visual way to show what the organisms in a habitat eat |
| Energy Pyramid | a model that shows the flow of energy from one trophic, or feeding, level to the next in an ecosystem |
| Detritivore | an animal which feeds on dead organic material, especially plant detritus |
| Decomposer | organism that breaks down dead organic material |
| Primary Production | the rate at which plants produce biomass per unit area, |