Ecosystem Flash Cards

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Title: Ecosystem
Description: food chain
Number of Cards: 11
Save Count: 2
Author: michelle_starvaggi14
Created: 2002-09-30
Tags: earth earthsciences
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    • CONSUMER
    • An organism in a community that must eat to get the energy it needs.
    • Population
    • Individuals of the same kind living together in the same environment.
    • DECOMPOSER
    • Consumer that breaks down the tissues of dead organisms.
    • What is a community?
    • All different kinds of populations living together in an environment.
    • Individual
    • A single organism in an ecosystem.
    • COMPETITION
    • The contest among organisms for the limited resources of an ecosystem.
    • What is an ECOSYSTEM?
    • A community and its physical environment together.
    • FOOD CHAIN
    • The ways in which the organisms interact with one another according to what they eat.
    • PRODUCER
    • An organism that makes its own food.
    • HABITAT
    • The place where every population lives in an ecosystem.
    • NICHE
    • Each population's role or job in its habitat.