Ecosystem 2
Terms
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- CONSUMER
- An organism in a community that must eat to get the energy it needs.
- Population
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Individuals of the same kind living together in the same environment.
- DECOMPOSER
- Consumer that breaks down the tissues of dead organisms.
- What is a community?
- All different kinds of populations living together in an environment.
- Individual
- A single organism in an ecosystem.
- COMPETITION
- The contest among organisms for the limited resources of an ecosystem.
- What is an ECOSYSTEM?
- A community and its physical environment together.
- FOOD CHAIN
- The ways in which the organisms interact with one another according to what they eat.
- PRODUCER
- An organism that makes its own food.
- HABITAT
- The place where every population lives in an ecosystem.
- NICHE
- Each population's role or job in its habitat.