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Ecology Vocabulary
Vocabulary for ecology
Term | Definition |
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Biotic Factors | living things in an ecosystem |
Organism | a single individual species |
Population | a group of the same species living in the same place |
Producer | organisms that make their own food |
Habitat | a place where an organism lives |
Food Web | a diagram that show all feeding relationships |
Ecology | the study of interactions or relationships between organisms and their environment |
Energy Pyramid | a diagram that shows how much energy flows from one level to another |
Abiotic Factors | all nonliving things in an ecosystem |
Ecosystem | all living and nonliving things interacting in the same place at the same time |
Community | all organisms in the same place at the same time |
Niche | the role of a species in a community |
Predator | an organism that hunts, kills, and eats other organisms |
Prey | an organism that is killed and eaten by other organisms |
Consumer | Organisms that can not make their own food they must eat |
Carnivore | Organisms that eat only other animals |
Herbivore | consumers that eat only plants |
Omnivore | consumers that eat both plants and animals |
Parasite | an organism that lives on or in another organism and causes it harm |
Food Chain | the path that energy takes from one organism to another |
Host | an organism that is being fed upon by a parasite |