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5th Ecosystems 1
Ecosystems & Energy Flow
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Individual | a single organism in an environment |
| Population | all the individuals of the same kind living in the same environment |
| Community | all the populations of organisms living together in an environment |
| Ecosystem | a community and its physical environment |
| Interaction | the combined or reciprocal action of two or more things that have an effect on each other and work together |
| Interdependent | two or more people or things dependent on each other |
| Habitat | a place in an ecosystem where a population lives |
| Producer | an organism that makes its own food |
| Consumer | an organism in a community that must eat to get the energy it needs |
| Food Chain | the ways in which the organisms in an ecosystem interact with one another according to what they eat |
| Decomposer | consumer that breaks down the tissues of dead organisms |
| Food Web | shows interactions among many different food chains in a single ecosystem |
| Energy Pyramid | shows the amount of energy available to pass form one level of a food chain to the next |
| Lentic | related to or living in still waters |
| Wetland | land where water saturation is the dominant factor determining the nature of the soil development and the plant and animal communities |
| Biome | a large scale ecosystem. It contains multiple ecosystems. |
| Climate Zone | A region in which yearly patterns of temperature, rainfall, and the amount of sunlight are similar throughout |
| Lotic | related to or living in moving water |
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