Ecosystem Components and Interactions

Front

What is the term for everything that surrounds and affects a living thing?

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Environment

Front

What do we call all organisms of the same kind that live in an ecosystem?

Back

Population

Front

What is the term for two or more food chains that overlap?

Back

Food web

Front

What do we call all living and nonliving things that interact in one place?

Back

Ecosystem

Front

What is the term for any organism that makes its own food, such as plants?

Back

Producer

Front

What is the term for organisms that cannot make their own food and rely on others for energy?

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Heterotroph

Front

What do we call the role an organism plays in its environment, including its habitat and interactions?

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Niche

Front

What is the term for the variety of life in a particular habitat or ecosystem?

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Biodiversity

Front

What do we call the process by which plants use sunlight to make food?

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Photosynthesis

Front

What is the term for organisms that break down dead or decaying matter?

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Decomposer