Ecosystems Test
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- the role of an organism in its habitat
- niche
- system made up of living things and their environment
- ecosystem
- living thing that can make its own food
- producer
- living thing that breaks down dead pants or animals for food
- decomposer
- living thing that eats other living things
- consumes
- place that meets an organism’s needs
- habitat
- average weather of a place over a long time
- climate
- group of organisms living together and interacting (made up of more than one population)
- community
- group of the same species living in the same place at the same time
- population
- protecting an area of land or water
- preservation
- careful management and wise use of natural resources
- conservation
- to make something in a new way to use less material
- redesign
- repair of some damage done to an ecosystem
- reclamation
- What does a mangrove swamp have that limits the plants that could survive there?
- salt water
- What do bodies of dead animals do for the soil when they decompose?
- add nutrients to the soil