ecosystem vocab

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What is an ecosystem?

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All of the living and nonliving things in an area.

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What is the definition of population?

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A group of the same organisms living in a certain area.

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What is a niche?

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An organism's job or role within an ecosystem.

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What is the definition of a community?

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All of the living things in one area.

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What is a habitat?

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The place where a plant or animal naturally grows.

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What is a producer?

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An organism that makes its own food, usually through photosynthesis.

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What is a consumer?

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An organism that eats other organisms for energy.

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What is a decomposer?

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An organism that breaks down dead material and recycles nutrients back into the ecosystem.

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What is biodiversity?

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The variety of different species in an ecosystem.

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What is a food chain?

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A sequence that shows how energy and nutrients flow from one organism to another.