Earth Ecology Flashcards

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Ecosystem

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Community of living organisms and their environment

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Biodiversity

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Variety of life in an ecosystem

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Photosynthesis

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Process by which plants make food using sunlight

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Food Chain

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Sequence of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food

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Food Web

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Complex network of interconnected food chains

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Producer

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Organism that makes its own food, usually plants

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Consumer

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Organism that eats other organisms for energy

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Decomposer

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Organism that breaks down dead material

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Habitat

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Natural home or environment of an organism

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Niche

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Role or function of an organism in an ecosystem