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- habitat
- the place where a species lives
- food web
- a combination of all the food chains in a community
- niche
- the role of a species in an ecosystem
- respiration
- the process by which organisms use oxygen and sugar to release energy
- population
- all of the members of one species that live in the same area
- producer
- an organism that uses sunlight to make sugar from water and carbon dioxide
- community
- all the populations living together in one area
- scavenger
- an animal that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
- ecosystem
- all the living and nonliving parts in an area
- photosynthesis
- the process by which plants use sunlight to make sugar from water and carbon dioxide
- consumers
- an organism that consumes other organisms for food
- energy pyramid
- a diagram that compares the amount of energy available at each position, or level in the feeding order
- decomposer
- an organism that helps to break down and decay dead organisms and the wastes of living organisms
- ecology
- the study of the relationships among the living and nonliving parts of an area