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What is the difference between a population, community and ecosystem?

Published on Nov 21, 2015

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What is the difference between a population, community and ecosystem?

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Organisms find these needs in their habitat

Food
Water
Space
A place to reproduce

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Population
One type of organism living in the same habitat
example:herd of deer

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Community
More then one type of organism living in the same habitat
Deer, trees, insects, bacteria, mushrooms, wolves , flowers

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Ecosystem

The living and nonliving things in a habitat

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Deer, trees, insects, bacteria, mushrooms, wolves , flowers, sun, lake, soil, rocks, rain, snow, heat

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What are the roles of producer, consumer, and decomposer?

What are the roles of producer, consumer, and decomposer?

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Every organism also has a niche in its habitat. A niche is an organisms job or what the organism does in the habitat. No two organisms have the same niche

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Abiotic

Non living things

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Biotic

Living things

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Some niche's include
predator, prey, producer, consumer & decomposer.

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Predator: An animal that eats another animal.

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Prey: The animal that gets eaten

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Producer: An organism that gets its energy from the sun, such as a plant.

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Consumer: An animal that eats another animal for energy and nutrients, they are at 3 levels.

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Primary Consumer: An animal that eats a producer (plant).

Secondary Consumer: An animal that eats a primary consumer.

Tertiary Consumer: An animal that eats a secondary consumer.

Decomposer: An organism that gets its energy and nutrients from dead organisms and turns them into soil, such as fungi and bacteria.

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