Ecosystem Vocabulary

Nonliving parts of an ecosystem that affect living things

• Equilibrium

• Biodiversity

• Abiotic Factor

• Biotic Factor

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Living or once-living things that affect other living things

• Biotic Factor

• Equilibrium

• Biodiversity

• Abiotic Factor

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The gradual and orderly process of change in the environment over time

• Trophic Level

• Decomposer

• Equilibrium

• Succession

A stable balance in the numbers of each species in an ecosystem

• Succession

• Consumer

• Equilibrium

• Producer

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The variety of life in an ecosystem

• Biome

• Biotic Factor

• Biodiversity

• Ecosystem

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The position an organism occupies in a food chain

• Trophic Level

• Biome

• Biodiversity

• Mutualism

An organism that lives on another living organism causing it harm

• Scavenger

• Parasitism

• Decomposer

• Consumer

A consumer that feeds on dead or decaying material

• Parasitism

• Scavenger

• Decomposer

• Symbiosis

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An organism that gets its food by breaking down the remains of dead organisms and returns the nutrients back to the soil

• Decomposer

• Scavenger

• Population

• Commensalism

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An autotrophic organism that makes its own food with light

• Consumer

• Decomposer

• Scavenger

• Producer

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