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ecology terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abiotic | an environmental factor that isn't associated with animals |
| biogeochemical cycle | |
| biotic | an environmental factor that is associated with animals |
| carbon cycle | the cycle from which carbon goes from non-living thing to living thing to non-living thing |
| commensalism | the relationship between 2 organism where 1 benefits and the other is unaffected |
| competition | a ecological relationship when more that one organism are using the same limited resource |
| Consumer | a organism that eats other organisms and plants |
| decomposer | a organism that gets energy by breaking down a dead organism |
| ecology | the study of how animals interact with one another. |
| ecosystem | a group of organism with their abiotic |
| energy pyramid | a triangular diagram that show how energy is gained or lost |
| food chain | the way energy transfers |
| food web | a diagram that shows the relationship in a ecosystem |
| limiting factor | a environmental limit that stops a species from reaching its full potential |
| mutualism | the relationship between 2 organisms and both benefit |
| parasite | |
| parasitism | the relationship between a parisite and its host |
| predation | |
| predator | a organism that kills and eats all or part of the arganism |
| prey | organism that is eaten by another organism |
| primary consumer | An organism that can make its own food by using energy from its surroundings. |
| producer | |
| secondary consumer | |
| symbiosis | |
| tertiary consumer | |
| trophic level | |
| water cycle |
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