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Hoffman Bio S2. #5
Semester 2 - Vocab List #5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Organism | An individual living thing |
| Population | The entire group of the same species that lives in an area |
| Community | All of the populations of different species that live in an area |
| Ecosystem | All of the living and non-living factors that make up an environment which make it unique |
| Biome | major regional or global community of organisms characterized by the climate conditions and plant communities |
| Biotic | Living factors of an ecosystem (plants, animals, fungi, bacteria) |
| Abiotic | Non-living factors of an ecosystem (temperature, water, soil, minerals, etc.) |
| Producer/Autotroph | Organisms that get their energy from nonliving resources, meaning they make their own food |
| Consumer/Heterotroph | Organisms that get their energy by eating other living or once-living resources |
| Biosphere | All living things and all the places they are found on Earth |
| Ecology | The study of the interactions between organisms and their environment |
| Biodiversity | The variety of life in a particular habitat or ecosystem |
| Food Chain | Single path of energy in an ecosystem due to feeding relationships |
| Food Web | Interconnected feeding relationships within an ecosystem |
| Carnivore | Organism that only eats other consumers |
| Omnivore | Organism that eats both producers and consumers |
| Detritivore | Organism that eats dead organic matter |
| Herbivore | Organism that eats only producers |