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Ecosystems Vocabulary
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1. biotic - living, once living or related to a living thing
2. abiotic - non-living (never lived)
3. ecosystem - all the living and non-living things in environment and how they
interact.
4. community - all the populations that live in the same place
5. diversity - the number of different kinds of living things in an ecosystem
6. habitat - the area or place where an organism lives that meets all its needs
7. population - all the members of one species that live in the same area
8. organism - any life form (any living thing)
9. consumer - living things that eat other living things to survive
10. producer - organisms that can make their own food (such as plants)
11. herbivore - any animal that eats only plants
12. carnivore - any animal that eats only meat
13. omnivore - any animals that eats both plants and meat
14. decomposer - organisms that break down animal waste and remains (dead
things)
15. competition - when two or more living things need the same resource to survive
16. resource - anything that takes care of a need
17. adaptation - changes to a species’ physical characteristics that happen over
many generations to allow animals to survive in an environment that has changed
18. fossil - the remains of a plant or animal that lived long ago
19. extinct - hanging died out and no longer in existence