Ecosystem Vocabulary

The living and nonliving things in an environment and all the interactions

• population

• food chain

• ecosystem

• community

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All of the living organisms living in an area

• habitat

• community

• ecosystem

• hibernation

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One type of organism living in an area

• food web

• ecosystem

• community

• population

The home of an organism or where the organism lives

• habitat

• ecosystem

• community

• population

An organism,such as a plant, that makes its own food

• decomposer

• consumer

• producer

• niche

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An organism that gets its energy by eating plants or other animals

• consumer

• decomposer

• producer

• niche

An organism that BREAKS DOWN wastes and the remains of other animals

• producer

• consumer

• niche

• decomposer

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The path of energy in an ecosystem from plants to animals

• food web

• food chain

• ecosystem

• niche

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The pattern that shows how food chains are related in an ecosystem

• food web

• food chain

• ecosystem

• niche

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The role or job of each organism

• prey

• niche

• herbivore

• carnivore