Ecosystem vocabulary

A food web is

• a community of organisms with several interrelated food chains

• food chain

• a fly caught in a spider web

• food connected by string

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Biotic factors are

• factors relating to living organisms

• factors relating to nonliving organisms

• biological factors

• biomes

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An ecosystem is

• an animal

• the world

• organisms interacting with their physical environment

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A food chain is

• a food web

• a community of organisms where each member is eaten by another

• a chain made of food

• the flow of energy through an ecosystem

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An organism is

• a biome

• an ecosystem

• a living thing that can act independently

• snow

a biome is

• school

• the world

• a major ecological community with distinct climate and plants

• home

A consumer is

A habitat is

A producer is

Biodiversity is

• an environment

• the variety of plant and animal life in a habitat

• a species

• a dog