Ecosystem Vocabulary

Organism- Living Thing

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Ecosystem-The interactions between living and nonliving things
Energy source- food for a plant or animal
Energy pyramid- A model that shows the amount of energy at
each level of the food chain
Environment- the natural world where abiotic and biotic things
live
Energy transfer- Energy that passes from one organism to
another
Carnivore- animals that only eat meat
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Herbivore- animals that only eat plants
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Omnivore- animals that eat meat and plants
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Producer- organisms that make their own food
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Consumer- organisms that hunt their food
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Decomposer- living things that eat dead or decaying animals or
plants
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Food chain- the order in which animals consume one another
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Food web- many food chains linked together in an ecosystem
Prey animals that are hunted
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Predator- animals that hunt for food
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Species- breed or type of animal
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Abiotic- Non living things
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Biotic- living things
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Habitat- where a plant or animal live
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Competition- the struggle between living things to survive
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Limiting factors- anything that controls growth of survival of
living things

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Community-All the populations in an ecosystem
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Population-one species in an ecosystem
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Individual- one animal
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Oxygen- what animals breathe and plants produce
Carbon dioxide- what plants breathe and animals produce
Off spring- young of living things
Traits- an animal or plants physical characteristics
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