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Ecology trahhhh
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abiotic Factor | Non living part of our ecosystem |
| Autotroph | A organism capable of making nutritive organic molecules from inorganic sources via photosynthesis (involving light energy) or chemosynthesis (involving chemical energy). |
| Biological Community | A group of interdependent organisms living and interacting with each other in the same habitat. |
| Biomass | The total mass of all living material in a specific area, habitat, or region. |
| Biome | A major ecological community of organisms adapted to a particular climatic or environmental condition on a large geographic area in which they occur. |
| Biosphere | The part of the earth where living things exist/ All of the ecosystems of the earth. |
| Biotic Factor | A factor created by a living thing or any living component within an environment in which the action of the organism affects the life of another organism, for example a predator consuming its prey. |
| Carnivore | An animal or plant (particularly insect- and invertebrate-eating plants) that requires a staple diet consisting mainly or exclusively of animal tissue through predation or scavenging. |
| Carrying Capacity | largest number of individuals of a particular species that can survive over long periods of time in a given enviroment, this level depends on the effect of the limiting factors |
| Detritivore | An organism that feeds on detritus or organic waste. |
| Ecology | Ecological science: the science concerned with the interactions of living organisms with each other and with their environment, also called bionomics. |
| Ecosystem | A system that includes all living organisms (biotic factors) in an area as well as its physical environment (abiotic factors) functioning together as a unit. |
| Food Chain | A feeding hierarchy in which organisms in an ecosystem are grouped into trophic (nutritional) levels and are shown in a succession to represent the flow of food energy and the feeding relationships between them. |
| Food Web | A food web is many food chains linked together to show a more accurate model of all possible feeding relationships of organisms in an ecosystem. |
| Habitat | Place where an organism or a biological population normally lives or occurs. |
| Herbivore | An animal that consumes herbaceous vegetation. Any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants; horses are herbivores; the sauropod dinosaurs were apparently herbivores.Animals that consume plant material as a source of obtaining [[energy. |
| Heterotroph | An organism that is unable to synthesize its own organic carbon-based compounds from inorganic sources, hence, feeds on organic matter produced by, or available in, other organisms |
| Migration | Passing from one part to another, said of certain morbid processes or symptoms |
| Mutualism | A symbiotic relationship between individuals of different species in which both individuals benefit from the association. |
| Niche | The specific area where an organism inhabits. |
| Omnivore | An animal that feeds on both plants and animals to survive. Humans are an example. |
| Population | A group of organisms of one species that interbreed and live in the same place at the same time (e.g. deer population). |
| Population Growth | (Science: epidemiology) increase, over a specific period of time, in the number of individuals living in a country or region. |
| Predation | A form of symbiotic relationship between two organisms of unlike species in which one of them acts as predator that captures and feeds on the other organism that serves as the prey. |
| Trophic Level | A position in a food chain or Ecological Pyramid occupied by a group of organisms with similar feeding mode. |
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