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Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Abiotic | Describes the nonliving part of the environment including water, rocks, light, and temperature |
Biotic | Describes living factors in the environment. |
Biosphere | The part of Earth where life exists. |
Community | All of the populations of species that live in the same habitat and interact with each other. |
Consumer | An organism that eats other organisms or organic matter. |
Carnivore | An organisms that eat other animals. |
Decomposer | An organism that gets energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms and consuming or absorbing the nutrients. |
Ecosystem | A community of organisms and their abiotic, or nonliving environment. |
Energy Pyramid | A triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem’s loss of energy which results as energy passes through the ecosystem’s food chain |
Ecology | The study of the interactions of living organisms with one another and with their environment. |
Food Web | A diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem. |
Food Chain | The pathway of energy transfer through various stages as a result of the feeding patterns of a series of organisms. |
Habitat | The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism. |
Herbivore | An organism that eats only plants. |
Omnivor | An organism that eats both plants and animals. |
Organism | A living thing anything that can carry out life processes independently. |
Producer | An organism that can make its own food by using energy from its surroundings. |
Population | A group of organisms of the same species that live in a specific geographical area. |