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| 2719661703 | Habitat | an area in an ecosystem where an organism or species lives |  | 0 |
| 2719661704 | Niche | the specific role an organism or species plays within a habitat |  | 1 |
| 2719661705 | Producers | a group of organisms that produce their own food through the process of photosynthesis |  | 2 |
| 2719662010 | Consumers | a group of organisms that obtain their nutrients from other organisms |  | 3 |
| 2719662011 | Herbivores | a group of organisms that only eats plants |  | 4 |
| 2719662331 | Carnivores | a group of organisms that only eats animals |  | 5 |
| 2719662332 | Omnivores | a group of organisms that eat both plants and animals |  | 6 |
| 2719662333 | Scavengers | a group of organisms that feeds on dead organisms |  | 7 |
| 2719662698 | Decomposers | a group of organisms that breaks down dead plant and animal matter and releases the nutrients into the soil |  | 8 |
| 2719662699 | Saprobes | a group of organisms, also called decomposers, that break down dead plant and animal matter and release the nutrients into the soil |  | 9 |
| 2719662700 | Food chain | the sequence of organisms feeding upon each other in an ecosystem |  | 10 |
| 2719663920 | Primary consumer | an organism in a food chain that feed on producers |  | 11 |
| 2719663921 | Secondary consumer | the organism in a food chain that feeds on primary consumers |  | 12 |
| 2719664464 | Tertiary consumer | the organism in a food chain that feeds on secondary consumers |  | 13 |
| 2719664465 | Quaternary consumer | the organism in a food chain that feeds on tertiary consumers |  | 14 |
| 2719664823 | Top consumer | the last consumer in a food chain; is not directly preyed upon |  | 15 |
| 2719664824 | Trophic level | a distinct level of feeding within an ecosystem |  | 16 |
| 2719665541 | Food web | a group of two or more food chains that are intertwined |  | 17 |
| 2719665542 | Ecological Pyramid | an illustration of the energy, biomass, or numbers at each trophic level |  | 18 |
| 2719665949 | Pyramid of energy | an illustration of the amount of energy in the bodies of organisms at each trophic level |  | 19 |
| 2719665950 | Pyramid of numbers | an illustration of the number of organisms feeding at each trophic level |  | 20 |
| 2719666368 | Pyramid of biomass | an illustration of the total mass of dry, organic matter at each trophic level in a given unit of area |  | 21 |
| 2719667164 | Biomass | the mass of dry, organic matter in a given habitat |  | 22 |
