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Ecosystems Topic 2
Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Organism | A living thing |
| Habitat | An environment that provides all the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce. |
| Biotic Factor | A living or once living part of an organisms habitat. |
| Abiotic factor | A non-living part of an organisms habitat |
| Population | All the members of ONE SPECIES living in an area |
| Community | All the living things in a particular area |
| Ecosytems | All the living and non-living things in an area |
| limiting factor | A factor that causes a population to decrease in size |
| Producer | (Plants) an organism that produces its own food through photosytheses |
| Consumer | An organism that must consume (eat other organisms for food) |
| Decomposer | Break down waste / dead material and return nutrients to an ecosytem (Bacterea / Fungus) |
| Food Chain | A simple chain of events that illistrates how energy is transfered by eating and being eaten |
| Food Web | Shows relationships between overlapping food chains in an ecosytem |
| Energy Pyramid | Shows the amount of energy available at each feeding level |
| Evaporation | Liquid-Gas |
| Condensation | Gas-Liquid |
| Precipitation | Water falling from the sky in the form of rain, sleet, hail. etc. |
| Cycles | Water, Carbon and Oxygen, Nitrogen |