Ecosystems

An organism in an individual _____ thing.

• nonliving

• living

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A population is a group of organisms of ____ ______ that live in the same area.

• different things

• several types

• one type

• living things

A community includes __________ _____________ that live together in a certain area.

• one population

• multiple populations

• nonliving things

• living things

An ecosystem is all the things that __________ in a certain area, both living and nonliving things.

• play

• sleep

• interact

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A food web is a ___________ of food chains within an ecosystem. Most living things eat more than one type of food, so their food chains overlap and connect.

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A consumer is an organism that ________ other living things for food.

A producer is an organism that __________ their own food.

A decomposer is an organism that ______ _______ dead plants and animals and turns them into nutrients in the soil.

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Organisms __________ on other organisms and the nonliving parts of their ecosystems to survive.

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An ecosystem must remain _________ in order to sustain the organisms over time.

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