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Producer
Consumer
Decomposer
Biodiversity
Abiotic Factor
Biotic Factor
Nutrient
Nitrogen Fixation
Denitrification
Decomposition
Trophic level
Autotroph
living factor that shapes an ecosystem (beetle,
human, etc)
organism that is able to capture energy from
sunlight and use it to produce food; also known
as an autotroph
chemical substance that an organism requires
to live
Step in a food chain or food web
conversion of nitrates into nitrogen gas that is
released back into the atmosphere
sum total of the variety of organisms
physical, or nonliving, factor that shapes an
ecosystem (light, climate, etc)
organism that relies on other organisms for its
energy and food; also known as heterotroph
organism that gets energy by eating only plants
Heterotroph
Carnivore
Herbivore
Omnivore
the process of converting nitrogen gas into a
form that producers are able to use
The break-down of dead organisms and waste
by decomposers
organism that gets energy by eating animals and
plants
organism that relies on other organisms for its
energy and food; also known as consumer
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organism that is able to capture energy from
sunlight and use it to produce food; also known
as an producer
organism that breaks down and gets energy
from dead organisms; returns nutrients to the
soil (bacteria & fungi)
organism that gets energy by eating only
animals