4.3 Ecosystems Vocabulary Review

The types of activities organisms perform which help them meet a life need.

• structural adaptation
• behavioral adaptation

A physical characteristic developed over many generations.

• behavioral adaptation
• structural adaptation

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All the different populations of plants and animals living together in the same place.

• community
• population
• ecosystem

All the populations of living and nonliving things like water rocks and soil.

• community
• population
• ecosystem

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The role or job played by a species in the community.

• habitat
• niche

The place where an organism lives

• niche
• habitat

A group of organisms of the same kind living in the same place

• community
• ecosystem
• population

Makes its own food

• decomposer
• consumer
• producer

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Person or thing that eats something else

• decomposer
• consumer
• producer

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An organism that eats dead decaying organisms.

• decomposer
• consumer
• producer

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