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Ecosystem Vocab
16 cards·by jdixontms
all the living and non-living things in a area
Ecosystem
a group of organisms of one species that live in a area at the same time
population
the group of all the populations in a area
community
the job an organism has in a ecosystem
niche
the place in an ecosystem in which an organism lives
habitat
a repeating process or flow of material through a system
cycle
a organism which eats other organisms
consumer
a organism,usually a plant that makes its own food
producer
a animal the feeds on dead organisms,especially a carnivorous animal that eats dead animals
rather than or in addition to hunting live prey.
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 seed
germination