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What is a niche?

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A role an organism plays in its habitat

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What is an Ecosystem?

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It is where living and nonliving things interact

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What is a producer?

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An organism that makes its own food

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What is a consumer?

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An organism that must eat to take in its energy

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What is a herbivore?

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A consumer that eats only plants

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What is an omnivore?

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A consumer that eats both plants and animals

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What is a carnivore?

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A consumer that eats only meat

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What is a decomposer?

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An organism that breaks down dead plants and animals and returns nutrients to the soil

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What is the food making process of a plant called?

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Photosynthesis

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What is an abiotic factor?

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A nonliving thing

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What is a biotic factor?

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A living thing

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What is a food web?

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Multiple food chains put together to show the progression of energy through an ecosystem or organisms

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What is a population?

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A group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time

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What is a community?

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All the living things (biotic factors) in an ecosystem

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What is a habitat?

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A place where an organism lives

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What is symbiosis?

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A long-term relatioship between different species

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What is commensalism?

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A type of symbiosis where one organism benefits while the other is not affected at all

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What is mutualism?

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A type of symbiosis where the two organisms benefit

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What is parasitism?

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A type of symbiosis where one organism benefits and one is harmed

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What is a food chain?

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A way to trace the flow of energy in a system

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What is an energy pyramid?

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A diagram that shows the amount of energy that flows through each level of a food chain

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What is a tertiary consumer?

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The third-level consumer

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What percent of energy moves through each level of the energy pyramid?

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10%

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What happens to the other 90% of the energy that is not passed on to the next level?

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It is stored in tissues, and/or carried out for life processes

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What is a predator?

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An animal that hunts for its food

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What is prey?

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The organism that is being hunted by a predator

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