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ecosystem vocab
16 cards·by jamesjkl
ecosystem
all the living and non living things in a area
population
a group of organisms of one species that live in a are at the same time
community
the group of all the populations in a area
niche
the job an organism has in an ecosystem
habitat
a place in the ecosystem in which an organism lives
cycle
a repeating process or flow of a material through a system
consumer
an organism that eats other organisms
producer
an organism ,usually a plant that makes its own food
scavenger
an animal that feeds on dead organisms
decomposer
an organism that gets nutrients by breaking down dead organisms
envirement
all the conditions surrounding a living thing
photosynthesis
the process by which plants use light energy to make sugars
carbon dioxide
a gas produced when people or animals breathe out or certain fuels are burned co2
ecology
the branch of biology that deals with relations of organisms
micro organism
a microscopic organism (example bacteria virus fungus )
gremination
the process by which a plant grows from a seed