Ecology

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Ecosystem

system formed by organisms and their interaction with their environment.

Biosphere

Part of the earth containing life

Producers

organisms that turn energy into food

autotrophs

make their own food

consumers

turn food into energy

heterotrophs

eat autotrophs/other heterotrophs

herbavoires

eat only plants

carnivoires

eat only meat

omnivoires

eat both plants and meat

trophic level

step in the food chain

nutrients

all chemical substances needed for life

succesion

a series of predictable changes in an ecosystem