Ecosystems
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| ecosystem | A place where living and nonliving things interact together.
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| biome | The large area where different plants and animals live (many ecosystems).
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| organism | Any living thing.
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| biotic | Living parts in an environment.
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| abiotic | Nonliving parts of an environment.
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| mutualism | A relationship in which both organisms benefit
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| producer | Organisms that make their own food. Example: plants
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| consumer | Organisms that cannot make their own food so they need to eat. Example: animals
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| food chain | The relationship between organisms in an ecosystem that explains how nutrients and energy are passed between those organisms
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| food web | A combination of many food chains.
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| autotroph |
An organism that makes its own food
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| herbivore | Animals that eat only plants.
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| omnivore | Animals that eat both plants and animals.
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| carnivore | Animals that eats only animals (meat eater).
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| migration | Animals travel to other places where the weather is warmer or they can find food.
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| hibernation | A very deep sleep. The animal's body temperature drops, and its heartbeat and breathing slow down.
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| decomposer | They break down the unused dead material and turn them into nutrients in the soil, which plants use to grow
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| adaptation | A change animals make to survive in their environment.
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| heterotroph | An organism that has to find its own food
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| commensalism | A relationship where one organism benefits and the other is not affected
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| detritus | The dead and decaying matter of plants and animals at the bottom of a pond
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| community | All the living organisms in an area (all the populations)
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| population | A group of organisms of the same species
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| succession | The life cycle, or the gradual change over time that a pond goes through
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| decomposer | An organism that breaks down organic matter
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| cyst | The protective covering of a microorganism that protects it until suitable conditions are met
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