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Simple ecosystem diagram

A simple ecosystem diagram.

An ecosystem is a community of living things and their non-living environment, and may be as large as a desert or as small as a puddle. An ecosystem must contain producers, consumers, decomposers, and dead and inorganic matter. All ecosystems require energy from an external source – this is usually the sun.

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Published: 10 June 2008Size: 120.45 KB