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Ecology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The area on earth where we can find life | Biosphere |
| Individuals that can breed and produce fertile offspring. | Species |
| All the different populations in an ecosystem | Community |
| The study of the interaction between the living and nonliving things. | Ecology |
| The interaction between living (biotic) and nonliving (abiotic) in a given area | Ecosystem |
| Producer ---> primary consumer ---> Secondary consumer | Food Chain |
| Many food chains that are interconnected. | Food Web |
| When consumers eat other organisms, energy is passed from one organism to the next. 90% of the energy is lost to metabolic activities. | Energy Pyramid |
| The use of the sun's energy to put carbon dioxide together to produce glucose and oxygen. Happens in the chloroplasts of plants | Photosynthesis. |
| Able to make its own food through either photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. | Autotroph |
| Consumes food | Heterotroph |
| Many different types of organisms live in an area. More stable | Biodiversity |
| Organisms that break dead things down so the nutrients return to the environment. Includes some bacteria and fungi. | Decomposers |
| Eat only plants | Herbivores |
| Eat only other consumers (meat) | Carnivores |
| Eat only dead organisms | Scavengers |
| Hunt and eat prey | predators |
| Lives on another organism, harmful | Parasite |
| Number of organisms that can be supported by a particular habitat | Carrying capacity |
| Evolution of an ecosystem. When plants and animals change the environment making it suitable for new plants and animals. | Ecological succession |
| A non-native species, has no natural predators, can destroy native species | Invasive species |