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Ecology Vocab
Science Ecology
Term | Definition |
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Ecology | The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment |
habitat | The places where an organism lives and that provides the things the organism needs |
Niche | An organisms particular role in an ecosystem or how it makes its living |
Environment | The surrounding or conditions in which a person, animal or plant lives |
Species | A group of similar organisms whose members can mate with one another and produce fertile offspring |
Population | All the members of one species in a particular area |
Community | All the different populations that live together in an area |
Ecosystem | All the living and nonliving that interact in an area |
Biome | Group of ecosystems that have have the same climate and similar dominant communities |
Succession | The series of predictable changes that occur in a community overtime |
Pioneer Organism | The first organism to populate an area |
Climax Community | Last community in a successful |
Producers | Organisms that make its own food |
Consumers | Organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms |
Herbivore | Animal that only eats plants |
Carnivore | Animal that only eats meat/animals |
Omnivore | Animal that eats both plants and animals |
Decomposer | Organisms that breaks down and returns important materials to soil + H20 large chemicals from dead materials organisms into small chemicals |
Mutualism | A type of symbiosis in which both partners benefit from living together |
Parasitism | A relationship in which one organism lives on or inside another and harms it |
Commensalism | Relationship between 2 species in which one species benefits + the other is neither helped nor harmed |
Transpiration | Process by which H20 is lost through plant's leaves |
Condensation | Process by which a gas changes to a liquid |
Legumes | Plants that have bumps called nodules on their roots |
Limiting Factor | An environment factor that prevents a population from increasing |
Carrying Capacity | The largest population that an area can support |