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Ecology
ecology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ecology | study of organisms and their relationships to each other and to their environment |
| rule to energy pyramid | one tenth of the energy is transfered up |
| consumers | get energy from eating lower animals |
| turn dead organisms back to organic material | decomposers |
| use the sun or chemicals to change inorganic compounds into energy | producers |
| carnivores | eat only animals |
| omnivores | eat plants and animals |
| herbivores | eat only plants |
| detrivores | eat already dead organisms, scavengers |
| sybiosis | relationship between organisms |
| abiotic | nonliving |
| biotic | living |
| carrying capacity | the amount of individuals an area can hold |
| logistic growth | grows quickly and levels off, happens with limited resources |
| exponential growth | graph gets steeper and steeper, ideal rescources |
| predation vs parasitism | animal is killed, animal is harmed |
| biodiversity | different organisms in an area |