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Ecology
Ecology voocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ecology- | -The study of interactions that take place among organisms and their environment |
| Organism- | -One individual that belongs to a certain species |
| Population- | -All the organisms that belong to the same species living in a community |
| Community- | -All the populations of different species that live in an ecosystem |
| Predator- | -Consumers that capture and eat other consumers. |
| Prey- | -The organism that is captured by the predator |
| Biotic- | -features of the environment that are alive or were once alive. The prefix bio means life |
| Ecosystem- | -All the living organisms that live in an area and the nonliving features of their Environment |
| Limiting | -Anything that restricts the size of the population, including living and nonliving features of an ecosystem, such as predators or drought. |
| Abiotic- | -the non-living physical features of the environment, including air, water,sunlight, soil (rocks), temperature, and climate. The prefix A means not (living |
| Producer – | an organism that converts simple inorganic matter (such as water and carbon dioxide) into organic matter (such as sugar and protein |
| Herbivore- | -an animal that primary eats plants, berries, fruits, leaves and other plant based foods |
| Omnivore- | -an animal that eats a variety of plants, animals, fungi, and algae |
| Carnivore- | -an animal that eats the flesh of other animals, or meat |
| Scavenger- | -an animal that eats the remains of dead plants and animals or decaying biomass |
| Decomposer- | -an organism that feeds off of dead things such as leaf litter and wood, animal carcasses, and fecal matter |
| Sun- | -a star at the center of our solar system. It is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma that radiates visible light energy, infrared radiation with 10% ultralight radiation. |