Ecosystems Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Environment | the surroundings that an organism lives in |
Ecosystem | all the populations and nonliving things interacting in an environment form |
Population | all the organisms of the same species that live in the same place at the same time |
Producers | organisms that make their own food |
Consumers | organisms that get energy by eating other organisms |
Decomposers | organisms that get energy by feeding on dead materials and wastes |
Community | populations of different kinds of organisms that live in the same place at the same time |
Habitat | the environment where an organism lives |
Niche | the role that an organism plays in its habitat |
Food Chain | the path of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem |
Food Web | overlapping food chains with different pathways for the flow of food energy in an ecosystem |
Photosynthesis | the process that plants use to make their own food |
Chlorophyll | a green pigment in plants that allows a plant cell to use light to make food |
Energy Pyramid | a diagram that shows how much energy is passed from one organism to the next at each level in a food chain |
Extinction | a plant or an animal species that is no longer living or existing |
Succession | a gradual change of the kinds of organisms in an ecosystem |
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