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ecology terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abiotic | An environmental factor that is not associated with the activities of living organisms |
| biogeochemical cycle | |
| biotic | An envirmental factor that is associated with or results from the activies of living organisms |
| carbon cycle | the movement of carbon from the nonliving environment into living things and back |
| commensalism | a relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected |
| competition | ecology relationship in which two or more organisms depend on the same limited resource |
| Consumer | an organisms that eats other organisms or organic matter |
| decomposer | an organism that gets energy by breaking by breaking the remains of dead organisms or animals wastes and consuming or absorbing the nutrients |
| ecology | the study of the interactions of living organisms with one another and with their environment |
| ecosystem | a community of organisms and their abiotic,or nonliving environment |
| energy pyramid | a triangular diagram that shows an ecosystems loss of energy,which results as energy passes through the ecosystems food chian each row in the pyramid repersents a trophic feeding level in an ecosystem, and the area of a rwo repersents the energy stored in |
| food chain | The pathway of energy transfer through various stages as the results of the feeding patterns of a series of organism |
| food web | a diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem |
| limiting factor | An envirmental factor that prevents an organism factor that prevents an organims or population from reaching its full potential of size or activity |
| mutualism | a relationship between two species in which both species benifit |
| parasite | |
| parasitism | a relationship between two spies in which one species, the parasite, benefits from the other species, the host, which is harm |
| predation | |
| predator | |
| prey | an organims that killed and eaten by another organims |
| primary consumer | |
| producer | an organims that can make its own food by using energy from its surrounding |
| secondary consumer | |
| symbiosis | a relationship in which two different organims live in close association with each other |
| tertiary consumer | |
| trophic level | |
| water cycle | the continuous movement of water between the atmosphere,the land,the oceans,and living things |
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