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Ecology Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abiotic | Non-Living |
| Biotic | Living |
| Habitat | The place where an organism lives in order to obtain its food, water, shelter and other things needed for survival |
| Biome | Individual Ecosystems |
| Niche | The particular role of an organism in its environment including type of food it eats, how it obtains its food and how it interacts with other organisms |
| Immigration | Add members to a population in an ecosystems (Not by birth) |
| Emmigration | When an organisms leaves its ecosystems |
| Limiting Factors | Controls the size of population |
| Community | All the different populations in a specific area or region at a certain time |
| Population | All of the individuals of a given species in a specific area or region at a certain time |
| Ecosystem | One or more communities in an area and the abiotic factors |
| Producer | Produces energy |
| Consumer | Eat the producer such as herbivores, carnivore, and omnivores |
| Herbivore | Animals that eat plants |
| Carnivore | Animals that eat meat |
| Omnivore | Animals that eat both plants and meat |
| Scavenger | An animal that feeds on carrion, dead plant material, or refuse |
| Carrying Capacity | The maximum number of organisms that can survive in a particular ecosystem |
| Predator | An animal that naturally preys on others |
| Prey | An animal hunted and killed by another for food |
| Renewable Resource | Resources that can be replaced and reused by nature |
| Nonrenewable Resource | Natural resources that cannot be replaced by nature |
| Soil | one of the most valuable abiotic factors in an ecosystem because everything that lives on land depends directly or indirectly on soil |
| Groundwater | Water that soaks into the ground |
| Permeable | Soil and rock that allow the water to pass through |
| Impermable | Soil and rock that don't allow the water to pass through |
| Aquifer | Groundwater can also flow slowly through the underground rock or be stored in underground layers |
| Zone of Saturation | The area where the water has filled all the space in the soil |
| Divide | The high ground between two drainage basins |
| Drainage Basin | An area that is drained by a river and all the streams that empty into it, the tributaries |
| Watershed | Drainage Basin |
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