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Any non-living thing in and ecosystem
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Abiotic factor
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Provides the energy needed for autotrophs in an ecosystem
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The sun
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Any living thing that can make its own food in its own body
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Autotroph (synonym: producer)
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Organisms that eat plants or animals
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Omnivore
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The food source of primary consumers
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Plants/ autotrophs
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Five basic needs of all living things
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Food, water, oxygen, temperature, pressure
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Three examples of autotrophs
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Rose, algae, tulip (etc.- any plants)
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Any organism that cannot make its own food in its body and therfore must get its food fromm the environment
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Heterotroph (synonym: consumer)
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The two things needed for life to occur on Earth
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1. flow of high quality energy from the sun
2. the recycling of nutrients and matter
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All the living and non-living parts of an environment
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Ecosystem
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List 5 abiotic factors of an ecosystem
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Temperature, sunlignt, water, soil, rocks (etc)
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The amount of energy that is passed on to each higher level of the energy pyramid
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10%
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List three examples of heterotrophs
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Reindeer, cow, elk, human, dog (etc.- anything that eats)
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All the life on and around the Earth
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Biosphere
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All the living parts of an ecosystem
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Biotic factors
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