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Ecology

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TermDefinition
Producer organism that can make its own food, using sunlight
Primary Consumer organism that eat only producers such as herbivores(grasshoppers eat grass)
Secondary Consumer organism that eat the primary consumers (frogs eat grasshoppers)
Tertiary Consumer organism that eat the secondary consumer ( snakes eat frogs)
Ecology Study of how living things interact with one another and with their environment
biomes a group of ecosystems with similar climates and organism
habitat place where an organism lives and provides the things the organism needs
biotic living factors within an ecosystem like animals, plants, bacteria, fungi
abiotic nonliiving factors within an ecosystem such as water , sunlight, oxygen, temperature , and soil
organism a living thing that has an organized structure, can react to stimuli, reproduce, grow, adapt
community all the different populations that live together within a particular area9elephants, giraffe, zebras)
population all members of one species in a particular area (elephants )
biosphere the surface, atmosphere (air), and hydrosphere(water) occupied by living organisms.
species a group of living organisms made of similar indivinteracting duals
ecosystem all of the living and nonliving factors interacting within a particular area
symbiosis Interaction between two species
mutualism both partners benefit from living together
commensalism when one partner is benefiting while the other is not benefitting or being harmed
parasitism when one partner is living on or inside another and harming it
food chain series of events in which one organism eats another
food web many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
food pyramid shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web
10% rule organisms only get 10% energy from the organism they eat
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