Ecosystems Vocabulary

A system made up of living things and their environment

• community

• ecosystem

• climate

• population

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Role of an organism in its habitat

• consumer

• producer

• niche

• abiotic

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Group of organisms living together and interacting

• community

• population

• ecosystem

• habitat

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Living thing that eats other living things

• abiotic

• niche

• decomposer

• consumer

Living thing that can make its own food

• consumer

• biotic

• producer

• abiotic

Group of the same species living in the same place at the same time

• population

• community

• habitat

• ecosystem

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Living thing that breaks down dead plants or animals for food

• consumer

• decomposer

• producer

• eater

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Place that meets an organism's needs

• community

• population

• ecosystem

• habitat

All nonliving things in an ecosystem

• biotic

• abiotic

• diversity

• niche

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All living things in an ecosystem

• biotic

• ecosystem

• population

• community

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