Populations and Ecosystems Vocab

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What is an ecosystem?

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Living and nonliving things that interact in an area.

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What do we call consumers that eat both plants and animals?

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Omnivores.

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What is an organism that gets food by eating other organisms?

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Consumer.

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What are producers?

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Organisms that make their own food.

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What is an organism that breaks down dead organisms and wastes?

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Decomposer.

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What is a herbivore?

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An organism that eats only plants.

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What is a carnivore?

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An organism that eats only animals.

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What is a food chain?

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A sequence that shows how energy and nutrients flow from one organism to another.

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What is a habitat?

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The natural environment where an organism lives.

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What is biodiversity?

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The variety of different species in an ecosystem.