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| Aquatic Ecosystem | an ecosystem that is located in a body of water |
| Consumer | an organism that gets energy from eating plants or animals |
| Decomposer | an organism that breaks down the remains of dead plants or animals without need for internal digestion |
| Ecosystem | all living and non living things and all their interactions in an area |
| Energy | what is needed to do work or cause change |
| Food chain | the path of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem |
| living organism | all objects that have biological processes that keep them alive, such as plants and animals |
| organism | a single, self-contained, living thing |
| predator | an organism that hunts and feeds on another organism |
| prey | an animal that is hunted as food |
| producer | an organism that uses sunlight to make it own food for energy |
| hibernation | when animals go into a deep sleep |
| migration | animals go on a long distance journey from one place to another |
| instinct | natural behaviors that they need in order to survive in their environment |
| leaned behavior | behavior that needs to be taught in order for the animal to survive |
| herbivore | eats only plants |
| omnivore | eats both plants and animals |
| carnivore | eats only other animals |
