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Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ecology | the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings. |
| Biotic | of, relating to, or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations. |
| Abiotic | physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms. |
| Organism | any contiguous living system, such as an animal, plant or bacterium. |
| Habitat | natural environment of an organism |
| Population | summation of all the organisms of the same group or species |
| Community | social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality |
| Ecosystem | a system, or a group of interconnected elements |
| Biosphere | the ecosystem comprising the entire earth and the living organisms that inhabit it. |
| Producer | as a plant, that is able to produce its own food |
| Consumer | a person or thing that eats or uses something |
| Decomposer | organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms |
| Herbivore | animal that gets its energy from eating plants, |
| Carnivore | an animal that feeds on flesh |
| Omnivore | an animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal |
| Food chain | the sequence of who eats whom in a biological community (an ecosystem) |
| Food Web | the natural interconnection of food chains |
| Energy pyramid | graphical model of energy flow in a community. |