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Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ecosystem | all the living and non-living things interacting in a particular area |
| population | a group of the same type of organism living in the same area |
| stability | when something stays mostly the same over time |
| sample | a small part that is meant to show what the whole is like |
| energy | the ability to make things move or change |
| reproduction | the process of creating offspring |
| resource population | a population that is eaten by organisms from another population |
| energy storage molecule | a molecule that organisms can use to release the energy needed to survive |
| consumer population | a population that eats organisms from another population |
| decomposer | an organism that breaks down dead or decaying organic matter, like plants and animals. |
| consumer | an organism that cannot produce its own food and must eat other organisms (plants or animals) to obtain energy. |
| producer | an organism that creates its own food or energy |
| organisms | living things, such as plants animals and bacteria |