environment - everything in a habitat – both living and nonliving, including food, air, water, and shelter that affect an organism’s development and survival, compeition  - the struggle of organisms against each other for the same resource, non-living - anything that has never been alive, offspring - new organisms that come from parent organisms, living - organisms that grow and develop, use energy, and reproduce offspring, organism - a living thing, habitat - a place where an organism makes it home, consumer - organisms that obtain energy from eating other organisms, overpopulation - when a species population is bigger than the environment will support, food web - overlapping food chains with different pathways for the flow of energy in an ecosystem; arrows show the flow of energy, benefit - something that helps organisms thrive in their environment, fossil - the remains or traces of an organism that lived long ago, predator - an animal that hunts, catches, and eats another animal, food chain - the path of energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem; arrows show the flow of energy, interaction - how living and nonliving things work together in their environment, decomposer - organisms that obtain energy by breaking down waste or remains of other living things, nutrient - a substance used by an organism to survive, grow, and reproduce, prey - an animal that is hunted, caught, and eaten by another animal, thrive - grow strongly, healthily, invasive species - a new organism introduced in an area that can have a harmful effect on the ecosystem, role - the place or job an organism has in an ecosystem, energy - the strength and vitality required for physical and mental activity, transpiration - process of giving off water vapor through the leaves of plants, perish - die out, population - all the organisms of the same species that live in the same place at the same time, ecosystem - living and nonliving things that interact to provide the basic needs of the organisms that live there,

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