Ecosystem Vocab - Part 2

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The relationship between living things and their environment

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Ecology

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Two or more populations of different species that live together

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Community

Front

The role an organism plays in a community

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Niche

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Nonliving things found in an ecosystem

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Abiotic factors

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An organism that gains energy by feeding on another organism

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Consumer

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Organisms that make up the living parts of the ecosystem

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Biotic factors

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Any species vulnerable to endangerment in the future

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Threatened Species

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Small living things that eat everything from waste and garbage to dead animals

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Decomposer

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More than one individual of the same species

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Population

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An organism that makes its own nutrients and gets energy from the sunlight

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Producer