BIOME
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- decomposer
- An organism that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter
- energy pyramid
- A model used to show the amount of enrgy available to living things in an ecosystem. Usable energy decreases as it moves from producers to consumer-the bottom level is the largest.
- biotic factors
- a living thng in an environment
- consumer
- A living thing that gets its energy by eating other living things in a food chain
- biome
- a region of the Earth that has a particular climate and certain types of plants
- organism
- any living thing
- food chain
- A model used to show the feeding relationship between a single producer and a chin of consumers in an ecosystem. In a typical food chain, a plant is the producer that is eaten by a consumer, such as an insect; then the insect is eaten by a second consumer such as a bird.
- abiotic factors
- a nonliving physical or chemical part of an ecosystem
- ecosystem
- all living and nonliving things that interact in a particular environment
- ecology
- the scientific study of how living things interact with each other and thier environment
- food web
- A model used to show a feeding relationship in which many food chains overlap in an ecosystem
- sun
- provides the energy of everything on the planet
- producer
- an organism that captures energy from sunlight and transforms it into chemical energy