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ecosystem notes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Animals that cannot make their own food, and get their energy by eating plants and other animals | Consumer |
| One organism in and environment | Individual |
| All non-living things in an ecosystem | abiotic factors |
| Plants that produce energy from the sun | Producers |
| All living things in an ecosystem | biotic factors |
| A community and its physical environment | Ecosystem |
| Microorganisms, termites, worms, fungi that get the energy they need by breaking down dead matter | Decomposer |
| A combination of all the food chains in a community | Food Web |
| Individuals of the same kind living in the same environment | Population |
| Includes different populations | Community |
| A diagram of how energy and nutrients pass among organisms in an ecosystem | food chain |
| What happends to a living thing when it dies in a forest? | Decomposers break it down and the nutrients are returned to the soil. |
| What benefit do decomposers provide for an ecosystem? | They break down dead plants and animals |
| Animals that eat only plants | herbivores |
| Animals that eat only animals | carnivores |
| Animals that eat both animals and plants | omnivores |
| Animals that hunt and kill other animals for food | predators |
| Animals that are hunted and killed as food for other animals | prey |
| An organism that spends a significant portion of its life in or on a living host organism usually causing harm to the host without immediately killing it | Parasite |
| Organisms or cells that serve as a home or source of food for a parasite | Host |
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