Vocabulary Quiz Ecosystems
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- producers
- organisms that produce their own food through photosynthesis
- population
- individuals of the sme kind living in the same environment
- food web
- shows the relationships between many different food chains in a single ecosystem
- consumers
- livings things that must eat to get energy
- habitat
- place in an ecosystem where each population lives
- exotic
- nonnative organisms
- competition
- contest between organisms for limited resources
- energy pyramid
- shows amount of energy available to pass from one level of a food chsin to the next
- learned behaviors
- behaviors animasl fare taught or acquire after birth
- decomposer
- consumer that breaks down tissues of decaying organisms
- community
- all the populations of organisms living together in an environment
- ecosystem
- community of organisms and their physcal environment
- threatened
- likely to become endangered if it is not protected
- individual
- single organism in an environment
- instinct
- behavior an organism inherits