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ecology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ecology | the study of living things and their environments |
| biotic | living |
| abiotic | non-living |
| population | group of the same kind of organism living in a certain place |
| community | all populations that live in a certain place |
| ecosystem | living and nonliving things in an environment, together with their interactions |
| biosphere | thin zone of the earth that supports all life |
| producer (autotroph | an organism that produces its energy |
| consumer (heterotroph | an organism that doesn't produce its own energy |
| herbivore | A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage, for the main component of its diet. |
| carnivore | an animal that feeds on flesh |
| scavenger | earths clean up crew |
| decomposer | organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms, and in doing so, carry out the natural process of decomposition |
| food chain | a chain of organisms in which each link feeds on the one ahead and is eaten by the one behind |
| food web | way of showing how food chains are related |