Ecosystems Vocab

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Biotic Factors:

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Living parts of the environment.

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Abiotic factors?

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Nonliving parts of the environment.

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Living things (plants) that make their own food.

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Producers

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Organisms that break down dead plants or animals, returning nutrients to the soil.

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Decomposers

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A consumer that hunts another for food.

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Predator

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Consumer hunted by another consumer.

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Prey

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Role of an organism in its ecosystem

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niche

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Community of organisms interacting with their environment.

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Ecosystem

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Relationship where one organism benefits and the other is harmed.

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Parasitism

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Diagram showing interactions among food chains.

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Food web