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Living Systems
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4th Grade
03/03/2016

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Organism
Definition
A living thing made up of a cell or cells
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Food Web
Definition
The flow of energy and materials through connected food chains
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Decomposer
Definition
A consumer that puts materials from dead plants and animals back into the soil, air and water
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Producer
Definition
A living thing that can use sunlight to make sugars (food)
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Life Cycle
Definition
The stages in the life of a plant or animal.
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Consumer
Definition
A living thing that depends on producers for food.
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Habitat
Definition
The place or kind of place in which an animal or plant naturally lives to recieve
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Environment
Definition
Everything that surrounds an organism.
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Community
Definition
All of the populations in one ecosystem
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Ecosystem
Definition
A community and its nonliving environment
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Structural Adaptations
Definition
physical attributes that help organisms meet life needs
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Behavioral Adaptations
Definition
certain activities organisms perform that help them meet life needs.
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Population
Definition
All the organisms of one species that live in a certain place
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Niche
Definition
The function that an organism performs in the food web of a given community.
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Food Chain
Definition
The path energy and materials take in a community.
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