Matter Flow in Ecosystems
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| ecosystem | all living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other
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| biodiversity | the many different types of organisms that live in an environment
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| producer | organism that makes its own food through photosynthesis
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| consumer | an organism that must eat other living things to survive
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| predator | an animal that hunts and eats other animals
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| prey | an animal that is hunted and eaten by other animals
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| food chain | a model that shows how energy flows through a set of feeding relationships
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| food web | a model that show many different feeding relationships that pass energy in a single environment
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| limiting factors | anything that controls the growth or survival of a population
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| Sun | main source of energy in all ecosystems
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| decomposers | organisms that break down dead plants or animals and return nutrients into the ecosystem
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| plant needs | water, sunlight, air (carbon dioxide)
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| animal needs | food, water, shelter, oxygen
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| energy | the ability to do work or cause change; comes from the sun, passed through ecosystems by feeding relationships
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| cycle | process that repeats
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| decomposition | to break down into simple nutrients
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| recycle | to create new materials from used materials
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| biotic | living things-plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, protists
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| abiotic | non-living things; climate, soil, rocks, temperature, precipitation
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| glucose, starch or fat | energy storage molecule
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