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| Abiotic | Non-living parts of an ecosystem (sun, water). |
| Biotic | Living parts of an ecosystem (ex: plants and animals) |
| Habitat | The place in which an organism lives within an ecosystem, provides for basic needs. |
| Population | All the organisms in an ecosystem that belong to the SAME species (ex: all of the black bears in a forest). |
| Community | All the different populations that live together in an area and interact. Many different species together. |
| Ecosystem | Living and non-living things that interact in a paricular area. |
| Organism | ONE single living thing |
| Niche | is an organism particular role or job in an ecosystem or how it makes its living. |
| Producer | An organism that makes its own food by using sunlight, it is always the first organism in a food chain. |
| Consumer | An organism that obtains energy by feeding on another organism. |
| Decomposer | it breaks down wastes and dead organism and returns the raw material to the environment |
| Herbivore | Only eats plants |
| Carnivore | Only eats animals |
| Omnivore | Eats both plants and animals. |
| Organism | One living thing. The smallest unit of organization in an ecosystem. |
| Example of population | All of the jackrabbits in an area |
| Example of community | All of the birds, trees, rabbits. |
| Example of an ecosystem | All of the birds, trees, ponds and air |
