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Terms 13.1 + 13.2 +
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ecology | Study of the interactions among living things and their surroundings |
| Community | Collection of all of the different populations that live in one area |
| Ecosystem | Collection or organisms and nonliving things, such as climate, soil, water, and rocks, in an area |
| Biome | regional or global community of organisms characterized by the climate conditions and plant communities that thrive there. |
| Biotic | Living things, such as plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria |
| Abiotic | nonliving factor in an ecosystem, such as moisture, temperature, wind, sunlight, soil, and minerals. |
| Biodiveristy | Variety of life within an area |
| Keystone Species | Organisms that has an unusually large effect on its ecosystem |
| Producer | Organism that obtains its energy form abiotic sources, such as sunlight or inorganic chemicals |
| Autotroph | Organism that obtains its energy from abiotic sources, such as sunlight or inorganic chemicals. |
| Consumer | Organism that obtains its energy and nutrients by eating other organisms |
| Heterotroph | Organism that obtains its energy and nutrients by consuming other organisms |
| Chemosynthesis | Process by which ATP is synthesized by using chemicals as an energy source instead of light |