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Ecology Review
Fletcher's Ecology Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Carrying capacity | The amount of a population that can be sustained in an area over time |
| Population | The amount of a specific living thing in a given area |
| Ecosystem | Biotic and abiotic things that interact in a given area |
| Biotic | Living things in an ecosystem |
| Prey | Living things that are hunted by other living things |
| Logistic | A type of population graph that shows a carrying capacity |
| Omnivore | Animals that may eat plants and animals |
| Top Consumer | Animal that has no natural predators |
| Primary consumer | Hervbivores and Omnivores may be this in an energy pyramid |
| Producer | Organisms that can make their own food from sunlight energy |
| Limiting factors | Food, space, water & energy |
| Competition | When resources are limited __________ increases |
| Symbiosis | Organisms that have a very close living relationship |
| Carbon dioxide | Animals exhale it; plants consume and store it |
| Carnivores | Animals that are only able to eat meat |
| Niche | The jobs an organism does in its ecosystem |
| Community | A group of populations in an area |
| Mutualism | A symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit |
| Commensalism | A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is unharmed |
| Parasitism | A relationship in which one benefits and the other is harmed |
| Exponential | Population graph without any restrictions |
| Meat | Something all secondary consumers must be able to eat |
| Heterotroph | Organisms that cannot make their own food so they need other sources |
| Predator | An organism that hunts for its food |
| Marine | Another name for the ocean habitat |
| Lichen | a pioneer species on a volcanic island |
| Primary | The type of succession that occurs after a volcano |
| Secondary | The type of succession that occurs on land where there has been a forest fire |
| Grass | A pioneer species of secondary succession |
| Soil | Something that Primary succession doesn’t begin with |
| ClimaxCommunity | The end result of succession |
| Equilibrium | When _____ occurs in and area, succession stops happening |
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