Ecosystems

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ecosystem

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all ecosystems include living and nonliving things that interact with on another and their environment.

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community

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Organisims that live together in an ecosystem make up a community.

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population

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Each population contains all the organisms of the same kind in a community

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adaptation

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a structure on behavior that enables an organism to survive in its environment.

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niche

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The role that each species plays in a community.

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producers

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An organism that makes it's own food through photosynthesis.

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consumers

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organism that obtain energy by eating other organisms are called consumers. To get energy consumers must eat consumers or producers.

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decomposer

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Decomposer is another kind of consumer that feeds on the waste of living and dead organisms. bacteria, worms
insects are forest decomposers

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Name three kinds of consumers

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herbivores, carnivores and omnivores

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herbivores

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Is a plant eating consumer

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carnivores

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Is a meat eating consumer.

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omnivores

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Is a meat and plant eating consumer.

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parasitism

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In parasitism one organism lives in or on, feeds upon, and harms another organism. A parasite feeds on other organisms.

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host

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Is what the parasits feeds on. (Like a dog is a host to a flea, and the flea is a parasite.)

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commensalism

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In commensalism one species benefits, while the other species is unaffected. Like a spider that looks like part of the flower can hide from a prediator.