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Chap. 4 terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| community | a group of various species that live in the same habitat and interact with each other |
| ecosystem | the community of an organism and its abiotics |
| habitat | the place where the organism lives |
| biodiversity | the variety of species in an ecosystem |
| succesion | the replacement of one species in an enviromen by another |
| climate | the average weather in an area over a period of time |
| biome | a large region characterized by a specific type of climate and certain types of plant and animal communities |
| producer | an organism that produces can produce organic molecules from inorganic ones |
| consumer | a organism that eats other molecules |
| decomposer | an organism that feeds by breaking down organic matter from dead organisms; examples include bacteria and fungi |
| trophic level | one of the steps in the food chain |
| energy pyramid | the pyramid that shows the loss of energy in the ecosystem |
| carbon cycle | the movement of carbon from the nonliving organisms to the living organisms |
| resperation | the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between living cells |
| nitrogen cycle | the cycle of nitrogen through the organisms, soil, water, and the atmosphere |
| phosphorus cycle | the cyclic movement of phosphorus in different chemical forms from the environment to organisms and then back to the environment |
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