Introduction to Ecosystems

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

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

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Organism that makes its own food.

• Consumer

• Producer

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

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Consume wastes and dead organisms.

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Decomposer

• Producer

Large geographic areas with similar climates and ecosystems. (Tundra, Desert, Grassland, etc)

• Niche

• Ecosystem

• Biomes

• Habitat

Complex network of many interconnected food chains and feeding relationships.

• Food chain

• Food web

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Made up of the INTERACTION of all living organisms (like animals, plants, and bugs) in an area with all of the non-living organisms (like water, dirt, rocks, and the sun)

• Biome

• Ecosystem

• Community

• Population

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Made up of ALL the LIVING things on Earth and it includes fish, birds, plants, and even people

• Atmosphere

• Geosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Biosphere

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ALL of the LIVING organisms that are part of an environment

• Biotic Factors

• Abiotic Factors

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