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ecosystem


(EE-koh-sis-tuhm, EK-oh-sis-tuhm) A collection of living things and the environment in which they live. For example, a prairie ecosystem includes coyotes, the rabbits on which they feed, and the grasses that feed the rabbits.	1
‡ Chemical substances move through ecosystems on the Earth in cycles (see carbon cycle).	2
‡ The source of energy for almost every ecosystem on Earth is the sun.	3

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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