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Ecology Pt 1
Ecology Science 7 Part 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ecology | the study of how organisms and non living things interact in an environment |
| biosphere | the part of Earth with life |
| ecosystem | includes the living and non living parts of an environment |
| community | made of all the populations in an ecosystem |
| population | all of the organisms in an environment that are the same species |
| Five levels of environmental organization | biosphere, ecosystem, community, population, organism |
| habitat | the place where an organism lives provides food, shelter, and appropriate amount of heat and moisture |
| biotic | all organisms that live together and interact with one another in an environment |
| abiotic | all the non living factors in an environment (i.e. water, soil, light) |
| ecologist | a scientist who studies ecology |
| biodiversity | variety of all living things and their interactions in their ecosystem |