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Ecosystems week 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ecosystem | All the living and nonliving things in an area that work together. |
| organism | Any living thing (plant, animal, fungus, or microbe). |
| population | A group of the same kind of organism living in the same place. |
| community | All the different populations of living things in the same area. |
| habitat | The place where an organism lives and finds what it needs to survive. |
| biotic | The living parts of an ecosystem (plants, animals, people, bacteria). |
| abiotic | The nonliving parts of an ecosystem (sunlight, water, air, soil, rocks). |
| niche | The “job” or role of an organism in its habitat (what it does and how it helps). |