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| Consumer | an organism that eats other organisms (plants and or animals) for food |
| Decomposer | an organism that gets energy by feeding on dead materials and waste |
| Dependent | to rely on someone or something else |
| Ecosystem | a unit consisting of living organisms and the environment that they live in |
| Food Chain | a representation of the flow of energy from the Sun through producers to consumers and decomposers in an ecosystem |
| Food Web | representation of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem; includes the flow of energy from the Sun through producers to consumers and decomposers through multiple pathways |
| Habitat | the place where an organism lives; habitats supply the organism with food, shelter, moisture, and temperature for survival |
| Overpopulation | having too many people or organisms in a particular area, straining available resources and impacting the environment |
| Photosynthesis | process by which producers / plants use the energy in sunlight to create their own food |
| Producer | an organism that makes its own food (e.g., plants) |
