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Ecosystems Vocabulary • A Community of living things and the environment in which they live • The Individual is apart of the Population which is apart of the Community which makes up the Ecosystem Source: Deer Image from Google Habitat -• A Habitat is the place where a plant or animal lives or grows naturally – – – – Food Water Shelter Space A Population of Deer Source: Microsoft Images Niche • Niche – the role of an organism or a population within an ecosystem • Example of a Niche: Great Horned Owls is the predator of the skunk. Great Horned Owl Source: Google Images Food Chain/Food Web • Food Chain- A chain or series of living things which eat each other for energy (passage of energy from one living thing to another) • Food Web- the relationship between many different food chains in a single ecosystem. Consumers, Producers, & Decomposers • Consumer – an organism in a community that must eat to get the energy it needs • Producer – green plants that make their own food through photosynthesis; producers form the base of any food web. Without producers, energy form the sun would not be able to enter the food web • Decompose – are consumers that break down the tissues of once living organisms (ex. mushrooms and bacteria) Types of Consumers • Herbivore- An animal whose only food is plants • Carnivore- An animal that eats meat • Omnivore - an animal that eats both meat (insects and/or other animals) and plants. Food Chain Sun Plants Producers (photosynthesis) Rabbit Hawk Herbivore Carnivore Consumers Food Chain # 2 Sun Plants Butterfly/Caterpillar Herbivore Producers (photosynthesis) Turkey Bobcat Omnivore Consumers Carnivore
