5th Chapter 3 Interactions in Ecosystems

All living and nonliving things in an environment

• ecosystem

• biotic

• abiotic

• community

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All non-living things in an environment

• abiotic factors

• biotic factors

• ecosystem

• population

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All living things in an environment

• abiotic factors

• biotic factors

• ecosystem

• population

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All members of a single species in an area at a given time

• population

• community

• biotic factors

• ecosystem

Includes all the living things in an ecosystem

• community

• population

• ecosystem

• food chain

The path that energy and nutrients follow in an ecosystem. *energy flows in one direction*

• food chain

• population

• food web

• producers

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Any animal that eats plants or other animals

• consumer

• producer

• herbivore

• decomposer

Organisms that use the Sun's energy to make sugar and oxygen *base of every food chain

• producer

• consumer

• scavenger

• decomposer

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Break down dead or decaying plant and animal material. *includes fungi, bacteria, termites, and many worm species

• decomposers

• consumers

• producers

• scavengers

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Animals that ONLY eat meat

• herbivores

• carnivores

• omnivores

• consumer