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Vocab Quiz 17
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | A community of living and nonliving things that interact with each other. |
| Interact | To act on, work together, or affect each other. |
| Produce | A living thing that makes its own food, usually through photosynthesis. |
| Consumer | A living thing that must eat other plants or animals to get energy. |
| Decomposer | A living thing (like fungi or bacteria) that breaks down dead plants and animals into simpler materials. |
| Biotic | The living parts of an ecosystem (plants, animals, fungi, bacteria). |
| Abiotic | The nonliving parts of an ecosystem (water, air, sunlight, soil, temperature). |
| Dependence | When one living thing relies on another living thing or its environment for survival. |
| Competition | When living things try to get the same limited resource, like food, water, or space. |
| Food Web | A network of connected food chains that shows how energy moves through an ecosystem. |