Ecosystem Vocab

An ecosystem is

• an animal

• the world

• organisms interacting with their physical environment

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An ecosystem is

• an animal

• the world

• organisms interacting with their physical environment

An organism is

• a biome

• an ecosystem

• a living thing that can act independently

• snow

Biodiversity is

• an environment

• the variety of plant and animal life in a habitat

• a species

• a dog

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A species is

• a building

• a spider

• a category of organisms whose members can interbreed

• a season

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The position an organism occupies in a food chain

• Trophic Level

• Biome

• Biodiversity

• Mutualism

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An organism that lives on another living organism causing it harm

• Scavenger

• Parasitism

• Decomposer

• Consumer

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An organism that gets its food by breaking down the remains of dead organisms and returns the nutrients back to the soil

• Decomposer

• Scavenger

• Population

• Commensalism

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An autotrophic organism that makes its own food with light

• Consumer

• Decomposer

• Scavenger

• Producer

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An organism that eats other organisms for energy

• Producer

• Scavenger

• Consumer

• Decomposer