Chapter Three Ecosystems

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ecosystems all the living and nonliving things in an environment and the many ways they interact population all the members of one species that live within an area of an ecosystem community different populations that interact with each other in the same area niche the specific role an organism has in its habitat herbivores consumers that get energy by eating only plants carnivores consumers that eat only animals omnivores consumers that eat both plants and animals decomposers organisms that eat the waste and remains of dead plants and animals