Ecosystem Vocabulary
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| Habitat | the place where an organism usually lives
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| biome | a large region made up of similar ecosystems
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| Community | all the populations in a shared living space
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| biotic | the living things in an ecosystem, such as insects, animals and plants
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| abiotic | the non-living things in an ecosystem, such as water, soil and sunlight
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| Species | a group of closely related organisms that can produce offspring
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| predator | an organism that hunts for food
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| prey | an animal that is hunted and eaten for food
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| omnivore | an organism that eats plants and meat
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| carnivore | an organism that eats only meat
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| herbivore | an organism that eats only plants
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| food chain | a chart that shows energy transfer between a producer & consumers
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| producer | an organism like a plant that makes its own energy
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| consumer | a living thing that cannot make its own food
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| primary consumer | an organism that only eats plants
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| competition | the struggle among living things for resources
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| decomposer | an organism that gets energy by breaking down the remains of other organisms.
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