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Ecosystems/Food Web
Term | Definition |
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Niche | an organism’s role or function in an ecosystem. |
Habitat | where an organism lives in an ecosystem |
Overpopulation | too many of the same types of organisms in the same environment |
Role | how an organism obtains its energy in an ecosystem |
Benefit | to help |
Compete | interaction between two or more organisms that require the same resource |
Ecosystem | community of interacting organisms and their physical environment |
Environment | all the living and nonliving things in an area |
Living/Biotic | can move, reproduce, grow and need food,water and air (includes things that are now dead) |
Non Living/Abiotic | can NOT move, reproduce, grow and don’t need food, water and air |
Organism | all living things; plants and animals |
Population | all of the same kind of organism in an ecosystem |
Community | all the populations in an area |
Producer | organisms that make their own food |
Consumer | eat other organisms for energy |
Decomposer | breakdown waste waste and remains of dead organisms for energy |
Herbivore | eat only producers |
Omnivore | eat plants and animals |
Carnivore | eat only meat |
Transfer | move from one place to another |