Ecosystems/Organisms Vocabulary

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Ecosystem

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The way living and nonliving things in an area interact.

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Abiotic

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Nonliving parts of an ecosystem.

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Biotic

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Living parts of an ecosystem.

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Community

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All organisms living in an ecosystem.

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Interact

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To affect another organism and to be affected by it.

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Producer

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An organism that can make its own nutrients, usually with energy from the sun.

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Decomposer

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An organism that breaks down the bodies of dead organisms.

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Microbe

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An organism that is too small to see.

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Consumer

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An organism that needs another to survive.

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Food Chain

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A model that shows how matter and energy flow from one organism to another.