Ecology Unit 1
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| Autotroph | an organism that produces its own food.(Producer)
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| Hetertroph | an organism that can't produce its own food.(Consumer)
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| Ecology | the study of the relationships and interactions of living things with one another with their environment.
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| Ecosystem | all the living and non living things in a given area-can be as tiny as a drop of water or as large as an ocean or forest.
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| Abiotic factor | the non living parts of an ecosystem
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| Biotic factor | the living parts of an ecosystem.
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| Habitat | a place in which an organism lives- provides shelter, food, and other resources needed for survival.
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| Population | A group of organisms of the same species living together in the same area.
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| Species | A group of similar organisms that can produce fertile offspring.
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| Community | All the living organisms in an area.
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| Limiting factor | A factor in the environment that keeps a population from getting too big.
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| Caring Capacity | The largest population of a species that in environment can support.
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| Niche | In organisms role in an ecosystem.
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| Invasive species | A species that is not native to the area and who's spread causes environmental harm.
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| Trophic cascade | The secondary effect that part down the food chain after the removal of a top predator from an ecosystem.
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| Producer (autotrophs) | Organisms that make its own food matrix all energy and then ecosystem(bottom of all food chains and food webs)
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| Consumer(heterotrophs) | Organism that cannot make own food and feeds on producers organism that cannot make own food and feeds on producers or other consumers for food.
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| Herbivore | Plant eater
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| Carnivore | Meat eater
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| Omnivore | Plant and meat eater
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| Decomposer | Organisms that breakdown dead organisms and consume their nutrients
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| Food chain | Food energy transferred from one organism to another by eating.
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| Food web | All the possible overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
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| Feeding level | Location producer is the primary consumer the third Tertiary.
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| Energy pyramid | Shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another more energy is available at the base of the pyramid then at the top
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| Competition | When organisms use the same limited resources they can be divided between two species or individuals within a species
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| Predation | When one animal eats another animal not a plant the predator eat the prey
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