Ecosystems and Interactions of Living Things

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an animal that only eats other animals
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populations that live in the same habitat
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unlike a plant, cannot make its own food, instead it eats other living things
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an organism that breaks down dead organisms and waste, like fungi or bacteria
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all the living and nonliving things interacting in an area
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close to becoming extinct
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the diagram of energy loss through a food chain
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all the living and nonliving things in an area
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the food energy transfer between organisms in an ecosystem
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a model of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
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the place where an organism lives
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an animal that eats only plants
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a very small organism that can only be seen with a microscope, like bacteria
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the role an animal or plant plays in its habitat
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can eat both plants and animals
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the gas found in air and water that most plants and animals need to live
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the process by which plants use sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to make food
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adding harmful substances to the land, water or air
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all the organisms of the same species living in the same area
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an animal that hunts and eats other animals
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an animal hunted and eaten by a predator
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organism that can make its own food, like all plants
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the scattering of plant seeds
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