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Ecosystems
5th grade Ecosystems unit vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |