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a system that is made up of living and nonliving things that interact in an area |
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when parts of the ecosystem have an effect on each other.
(Can be between living things or between living and nonliving things) |
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| the surroundings that an organism lives in |
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all of the same type of organism living in the same area
[example: all of the humans in Houston is a population] |
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| all of the populations of organisms living together in an area |
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| the place an organism lives in its environment during the year |
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| a relationship between two organisms that need each other to survive |
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| when two or more organisms fight for the same resource in their environment |
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| a web of connecting food chains that shows the flow of energy in an ecosystem |
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| a diagram showing the path that energy moves through as it flows from one organism to another |
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| an organism that only eats other consumers |
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| a consumer that only eats organisms that are producers |
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| a consumer that eats both producers and consumers |
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| an organism that gets its energy by breaking down dead organisms into useful nutrients |
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| animals that feed on dead animals and plants and speed up decomposition. |
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