7th Science Inv 2 & Inv 3 Vocab

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abiotic nonliving components of an ecosystem biome collection of ecosystems that have similar environments and organisms biotic living components of an ecosystem community all the interacting populations in a specific area ecosystem system of interacting organisms and nonliving factors in a specified area population group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area biosphere the sum total of all living organisms on Earth habitat a place where an organism lives that support its requirements for life decomposer an organism that consumes parts of dead organisms and converts all the biomass into simple chemicals detrivore an organism that eats dead material, breaking the organic material into similar parts detritus dead organic material carnivore organism that obtains energy by eating animals food chain a sequence of organisms that eat one another in an ecosystem food web all the feeding relationships in an ecosystem primary consumer organisms that eat producers, also called first level consumers producer an organism that is able to make its own food through photosynthesis secondary consumer organisms that eat primary consumers, also called 2nd level consumers herbivore a consumer that eats only producers tertiary consumer organisms that eat secondary consumers; also called 3rd level consumers omnivore a consumer that eats both producers and consumers