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Enviroment
Term | Definition |
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Ecology | The study of the interactions of living organisms with one another and with their enviroment |
Biotic | Describes living factors in the environment |
Abiotic | The nonliving part of the environment, including water, rocks, light, and temperature |
Organism | A living thing; anything that can carry out life processes independently |
Habitat | |
Population | A group of organisms of the same species that live in a specific geographical area |
Community | all of the populations of species that live in the same habitat and interact with each other |
Ecosystem | A community of organisms and their abiotic, or nonliving, environment |
Biosphere | the part of the Earth where life exists |
Producer | An organism that can make its own food by using energy from its surroundings |
Consumer | An organisms that eats other organisms or organic matter |
Decomposer | Organism that gets energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms or animal wastes and consuming or absorbing the nutrients |
Herbivore | Organism the eats only plants |
Carnivore | Organism the eats animals |
Omnivore | Organism that eats both plants and animals |
Food chain | sequence of who eats whom in a biological community to obtain nutrition |
Food Web | a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains |
Energy Pyramid | graphical model of energy flow in a community |