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Ecology I (7th Grade
Ecology I
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ecology | the study of the interactions of living organisms |
| biotic | things that are living |
| abiotic | things that are nonliving |
| 5 levels of environmental organization | organism, population, community, ecostyem, biosphere |
| organism | an animal,plant or single-celled life form |
| population | group or organisms of the same speices |
| community | speices that live in the same habitat |
| ecosystem | community of organisms and their aboitic |
| biosphere | part of earth where life is |
| producer | they are in the food chain |
| consumer | they are in the food chain |
| herbivore | only eats plants |
| carnivore | only eats animals |
| omnivore | eats both animals and plants |
| scavenger | eats dead plants an animals |
| decomposer | organism that gets energy from breaking down dead plants |
| food web | series of organism |
| energy pyramid | amount of energy in each tropic level |
| limiting factor | tends to limit population |
| predator | exist by preying on each other |
| prey | animal that is hunted |