Ecosystem Vocabulary

A community of organisms interacting with one another surrounded by a physical environment

• Ecosystem

• Population

• Food Web

• Producer

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Relationship in which one species benefits and one is harmed.

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

• Biotic Factor

Living or working together in an ecosystem

• Co-existence

• Resource

• Abiotic Factor

• Biotic Factor

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A job or role in an ecosystem

• Food Web

• Niche

• Ecosystem

• Resource

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A living factor in an ecosystem

• Abiotic Factor

• Population

• Mutualism

• Biotic Factor

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Organism that breaks down once living organisms (bacteria)

• Predator

• Prey

• Decomposer

• Consumer

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Hunts and kills other organisms

• Predator

• Prey

• Decomposer

• Population

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

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A series of feeding levels representing the flow of energy in an ecosystem

• Habitat

• Food Web

• Ecosystem

• Niche

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Relationship in which both species benefit

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Predator/Prey

An organism that is hunted for food

• Predator

• Prey

• Decomposer

• Consumer

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