Vocab List # 8: Ecosystems

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Organism that makes its own food via photosynthesis or chemosynthesis

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Producers

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Organism that gets energy from eating others.

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Consumers

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Organism that breaks down tissue and returns nutrients to the ecosystem.

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Decomposers

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Non-living environmental factors like water, temperature, sunlight, air, and soil.

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Abiotic Factor

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Any living or once-living organism in the environment

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Biotic Factor

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Place where an organism lives

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Habitat

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Any factor that limits the number of organisms in a population.

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Limiting Factor

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Communities of organisms in an area and their abiotic factors.

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Ecosystem

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Populations of different organisms interacting in the same area

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Community

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Individuals of one species in a specific area

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Population