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Ecology Vocab

TermDefinition
Ecology The study of how living things interact with each other.
Biotic The living parts of a organism.
Abiotic The nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
5 Levels of environmental organism Organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere
Organism Living thing.
Population All the members of one species in a particular area.
Community All the different populations that live together in an area.
Ecosystem Made up of a community of organisms and the abiotic environment of the community.
Biosphere The part of Earth where life exist.
Producer/Autograph Organism that use sunlight to make energy.
Consumer/Hetrotroph Organism that eat other organism.
Herbivore A consumer that eats only plants.
Carnivore A consumer that eats animals.
Omnivore Eats both plants and animals.
Scavenger Omnivores that eat dead plants and animals.
Decomposer Organism that gets energy by breaking down dead organisms.
Food Web A diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in a ecosystem.
Food Chaim A diagram that shows how energy in food flows from one organism to another.
Energy Pyramid A diagram that shows an ecosystem's loss of energy.
Limiting Factor A resource that is so scarce that it limits the size of the population.
Carrying Capacity The largest population that an environment can support.
Predator The organism that eats the prey.
Prey The organism that is caught.
Predator Adaptions Examples: run faster and blend in
Prey Adaptions Examples: warning coloration, camouflage, stay in groups
Symbiosis A close, long-term a association between two or more species.
Mutualim A symbiotic relationship in which both organism benefit.
Commensalism A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.
Parisitism A symbiotic association in which one organism benefits while the other is harmed.
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