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Ecosystem terms and def
| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| Organism | Any living thing. |
| Individual | One single organism |
| Population | All of the individuals of one kind in a specified area at one one time. |
| Community | All the interacting populations in a specified area. |
| Ecosystem | A system of interacting organisms AND nonliving factors in a specified area. |
| Biotic | Living organisms and products of organisms. |
| Abiotic | Nonliving. |
| Aquatic | Of the water. |
| Terrestrial | Of the land. |
| Decomposer | An organism that consumes dead organisms. |
| Tufa Tower | A naturally occurring, gray, lumpy structure that forms under water in a salt lake because of a chemical reaction between calcium and salt in the water. |
| Food Web | All the feeding relationships in an ecosystem. |
| Consumer | An organism that eats other organisms. |
| Producer | An organism that is able to produce its own food through photosynthesis. |
| Photosynthesis | The process by which producers make energy-rich molecules (food) from water and carbon dioxide in the presence of light. |