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Ecology Unit Vocab
Ecology Vocab
| Term | Defintion |
|---|---|
| Abiotic | an environmental factor that is not associated with the activities of living |
| Organisms | a living thing, anything that can carry out life processes independently |
| Biotic | an environmental factor that is associated with or results from activities of living organisms |
| Carbon Cycle | the movement of carbon from nonliving environment into living things and back |
| Commensalism | a relationship between two organisms in which one organism in which one organisms benefits and the other is unaffected |
| Competition | ecological relationship in which two or more organisms depend on the same limited resource |
| Consumer | an organism that eats other organisms or organic matter |
| Decomposer | an organism gets energy by breaking down the remains of des organisms or animal waste and consuming or absorbing the nutrients |
| Ecology | the study of the interactions of living organisms with one another with their environment |
| Ecosystem | a community of organisms and their abiotic, or nonliving, environment |
| Energy Pyramid | a triangle diagram that shows an ecosystems loss of energy, which results as energy passes through the ecosystems food chain; each row in the pyramid represents a trophic feeding level in an ecosystem, and the energy stored in that trophic level |
| Food Chain | the pathway of energy transfer through various stages as a result of the feeding patterns of a series of organisms |
| Food Web | a diagram that shows the feeding relationship between organisms in an ecosystem |
| Limiting Factor | an environmental factor that prevents an organism or population from reaching it's full population from reaching its full potential of size or activity |
| Mutualism | a relationship between two species in which both species benefit |
| Parasitism | a relationship between two species in which one species, the parasite, benefits from the other, the host, which his harmed |
| Predator | an organism that kills and eats all or part of another organism |
| Prey | an organism that is killed and eaten by another organms |
| Producer | an organism that can make it's own food by using energy from it surroundings |
| Symbiosis | a relationship in which two different organisms live in close association with each other |
| Water Cycle | the continuous movement of water between the atmosphere, the land, the oceans and living things |
| Niche | The role of species in its community, including use of its habitat and its relationship with other species |
| Habitat | The place where an organism usually lives |
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