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Ecosystems
5th grade Ecosystems unit vocab
Question | Answer |
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terrarium | mini-ecosystem in an enclosed container |
environment | everything that surrounds and influences an organism |
organism | any living thing |
biotic | something alive or alive at one time |
abiotic | absence of life or without living |
individual | a single example of a species |
population | multiple individuals together in an area |
community | many different populations in an area |
herbivore | a consumer that eats only plants |
carnivore | a consumer that eats only other animals |
omnivore | a consumer that eats both plants and animals |
producer | an organism that creates it's own energy using sun, water, carbon dioxide and nutrients |
consumer | an organism that must gets energy by eating another organism |
decomposer | an organism that breaks down dead or decaying matter and returns nutrients to the soil |