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16 Cards in this Set
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Ecosystem |
a community and its physical environment together |
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Biome |
a large scale ecosystem |
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Community |
all the populations of organisms living in the same enviroment |
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Habitat |
a place in an ecosystem where a population lives |
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Niche |
the role of each population has in its habitat |
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Consumer |
an organism in a community that must eat to get the energy it needs |
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Decomposer |
a consumer that breaks down the tissues of a dead organism |
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Producer |
a organism that makes its own food |
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Food Web |
shows the interactions among many different food chains in a single ecosystem |
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Food Chain |
the way in which the organisms in an ecosystem interact with one another according to what they eat, eating the organisms below it |
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Symbiosis |
a long term relationship between different kinds of organisms |
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Grassland |
a biome's whose main plants are grasses |
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Population |
all the individuals of the same kind, living in the same environment |
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Carnivore |
an animal that eats other animals as food |
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Herbivore |
an animal that eats only plants as food |
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Omninivore |
an animal that eats both plants and animals as food |
