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Ecosystems

Ecosystems. All the living and nonliving things that surround a living thing. environment. People, other animals, plants, water, air, soil,weather. All the living and nonliving things in an area form this. ecosystem. A group made of the same kinds of individuals. population.

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Ecosystems

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  1. Ecosystems

  2. All the living and nonliving things that surround a living thing

  3. environment People, other animals, plants, water, air, soil,weather

  4. All the living and nonliving things in an area form this

  5. ecosystem

  6. A group made of the same kinds of individuals

  7. population One plant or animal

  8. All the populations that live in the same place and have at least one thing in common

  9. community Forest Coastal swamp

  10. Most living things on Earth get the energy to live from this

  11. sunlight

  12. Any living thing that can make its own food

  13. producer Green plants Algae

  14. An animal that eats other plants and animals

  15. consumer

  16. An animal that eats only plants

  17. herbivore

  18. An animal that eats only other animals

  19. carnivore

  20. An animal that eats both plants and other animals

  21. omnivore

  22. A living thing that feeds on wastes and on the remains of dead plants and animals

  23. decomposer

  24. Living thing that absorbs nutrients from living plants and dead plant materials

  25. Fungi (FUN – jy)

  26. These tiny decomposers can only be seen with a microscope

  27. bacteria

  28. What would happen if there were no decomposers on the earth?

  29. Earth would be covered with dead plants and animals.

  30. An environment that meets the needs of a living thing

  31. habitat

  32. How a living thing interacts with its habitat

  33. Niche (NICH) How it gets food, shelter, reproduces, cares for young, and avoids danger

  34. The movement of food energy in a sequence of living things

  35. Food chain Every food chain begins with a producer.

  36. Consumers that are eaten

  37. prey They are hunted.

  38. Consumers that eat prey

  39. predators They are the hunters

  40. What would happen if there were no predators?

  41. There would be an imbalance Some animals would starve and become extinct.

  42. Several food webs that overlap form this

  43. Food web One kind of producer may be food for several kinds of consumers

  44. Shows how each level of a food chain passes on less food energy than the level before it

  45. Energy pyramid

  46. What would happen if a large number of organisms in the base level of the pyramid change or are killed by drought?

  47. The whole food chain is affected. If the first level is affected, many in the higher levels will starve.

  48. The living parts of an ecosystem

  49. biotic Plants and animals

  50. The nonliving parts of an ecosystem

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