Ecosystems

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What is the main source of energy for ecosystems?

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Sun

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What do we call a living thing, such as a plant, that can make its own food?

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Producer

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What is a community and its physical environment together called?

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Ecosystem

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What do we call a living thing that can't make its own food and must eat other living things?

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Consumer

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What is a series of organisms that depend on one another for food?

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Food chain

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What is the term for the place where an organism lives?

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Habitat

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What do we call the different living things in an ecosystem?

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Biotic factors

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What do we call the non-living parts of an ecosystem?

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Abiotic factors

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What is the relationship between producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem?

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Producers make food, consumers eat producers or other consumers, and decomposers break down dead organisms.

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What is a food web?

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A food web is a complex network of feeding relationships among organisms in an ecosystem.

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