Ecosystems

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producer
produce oxygen
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consumers
animals that eat other living things
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decomposes
fungi and bacteria that break down dead plants and animals
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biotic
living things
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abiotic
non-living things
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population
organisms of the same species living in the same area
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community
populations living in an area
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ecology
study of how all things interact in an ecosystem
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habitat
where organisms live
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niche
the role of an organism in the community
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food chainthe path that energy takes from produces, consumers and decomposesfood webshows the relationship between all species in a communityherbivoresplant eaterscarnivoresmeat eatersomnivoresplant and meat eaterspredatorshunt living thingspreyhunted by living thingsscavengersfeed on the remains of dead animalsconiferoustrees that bare cones and have needlelike leavesdeciduousa plant that loses it's leaves each fall

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