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Environment
Words | Definition |
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Ecology | is the study of the interactions of organisms with one another and with their environment |
Biotic | All of the organisms that live together and interact with one another make up part of the environment |
Abiotic | abiotic part of the environment consists of the nonliving factors such as water, soil, light, and temperature |
Organism | a living things , anything that can carry out life processes independently |
Habitat | the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or another organism |
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 a nonliving, environment |
Biosphere | The part of Earth where life exists |
Producer | an organism that can make its own food by using energy from its surrounding |
Consumer | an organism that eats other organisms or a type of organic matter |
Decomposer | an organism that gets energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms or animal wastes and consuming or absorbing the nutrients |
Herbivore | an organism that eats only plants |
Carnivore | an organism that eats animals |
Omnivore | an organism that eats both plants and animals |
Food chain | the pathway of energy transfer through various stages as a result of the feeding patterns of a series of organisms |
Food Web | a diagram that shows the feeding rela- tionships between organisms in an ecosystem |
Energy pyramid | a triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem’s loss of energy, which results as energy passes through the ecosystem’s food chain |