Ecosystem Vocabulary

This is a ________.

• Food chain

• Food web

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All the living organisms that live in an area and the nonliving features of their environment.

• Habitat

• Niche

• Biomes

• Ecosystem

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Living things within an ecosystem.

• Biotic Factors

• Limiting Factor

• Carry Capacity

• Abiotic Factors

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Non-living parts of ecosystem (air, water, soil, sun)

• Ecosytsem

• Abiotic Factors

• Biotic Factors

• Niche

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In an ecosystem, refers to the unique ways an organism survives, obtains food and shelter, and avoids danger.

• Habitat

• Niche

• Biomes

• Ecosystem

Largest number of individuals of a particular species that an ecosystem can support over time.

• Carrying Capacity

• Limiting Factor

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Anything that can limit the size of a population, including living and nonliving features of an ecosystem, such as predators or drought.

• Carrying Capacity

• Limiting Factor

Consume wastes and dead organisms.

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Decomposer

• Producer

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Complex network of many interconnected food chains and feeding relationships.

• Food chain

• Food web

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An animal that is hunted and caught for food. It is a consumer; it may be a herbivore, omnivore, or carnivore.

• Producer

• Prey

• Predator

• Organism

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