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Ecology Caraher
Ecology vocabulary and concepts
Term | Definition |
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Carnivore | Feeds only on other animals |
Community | A group of organisms or populations living and interacting with one another in a particular environment. |
Consumer | An organism that gets its food energy from producers. |
Decomposer | Organisms that break down dead/decaying matter and return the nutrients to the soil. |
Ecology | The study of the interactions between organisms and their environment. |
Ecosystem | A community of living and non-living things. |
Food Chain | A model used to show how energy from food passes from one organism to another. |
Food Web | A model used to describe a series of overlapping food chains |
Habitat | The physical location of where an organism lives within a community. |
Herbivore | A consumer that feeds on only plants |
Niche | The role of an organism within the ecosystem. |
Omnivore | A consumer that feeds on both plants and animals. |
Population | The same species living together in the same place at the same time. |
Predator | An organism that hunts and eats other animals. |
Prey | An organism that is hunted and eaten by other animals |
Producer | Something that makes its own food |
Mrs. Caraher | Awesome science teacher |