Biotic Stuff Flashcards

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Food web

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a model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things

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Food chain

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a model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things from one producer up the line of consumers

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Decomposer

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organisms which carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms

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Consumer

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an organism that eats other living things to get energy; an organism that does not produce its own food

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Producer

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an organism that makes its own food; an organism that does not consume other plants or animals

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Levels of organization

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1 of an organism: species
Many of one species: population
All of the populations in an area: community
Communities with abiotic factors: ecosystem
All of the similar ecosystems in an area: biome
The earth: biosphere

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