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Ecosystem Vocabulary
16 cards·by Anthony.Adams
all the living and non-living things in an area
Ecosystem
a group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time
Population
the group of all the populations in an area
Community
the job an organism has in an ecosystem
Niche
the place in an ecosystem in which an organism lives
Habitat
a repeating process or flow of material through a system
Cycle
an organism that eats other organisms
Consumer
an organism, usually a plant that makes its own food
producer
An animal that feeds on dead organisms
Scavenger
an organism that gets nutrients by breaking down dead organisms
Decomposer
all the conditions surrounding a living thing
Environment
the process by which plants use light energy to make sugars
Photosynthesis
a gas produced when people or animals breathe out or certain fuels are burned-Co2
carbon dioxide
the branch of biology that deals with relations of organisms
Ecology
a microscopic organism- (example bacteria,virus,fungus)
Micro-organism
the process by which a plant grows from a seed
Germination