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Ecology
grade 9 ecology terms and definitions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Biome | Large geographical region that contains similar ecosystems |
| terrestrial | land based/aquatic- water based |
| Biosphere | A part of our planet,including water,land and air,where life exists.Biomes combine to form this... |
| Herbivores | An animal that only eats ONLY plants |
| Carnivores | An animal that eats mostly meat |
| omnivores | An animal that eats both plants and meat |
| predators | animals that cathches and feeds off of other live animals |
| scavengers | An animal that mostly eats decaying biomass |
| parasites | obtain their food by feeding off another organism which continues to live |
| Detrtivores | A consumer that feeds on organic matter |
| Decomposers | a special group of consumers that break down |
| Autotroph | organisms that must feed on other organisms to obtain energy |
| Food chains | show A step-by-step sequence of who eats whom in an ecosystem & the one-way flow of energy from the producer to the top level consumer. |
| photosynthesis | The process plants use to produce carbohydrates from carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight. (CO2+H20→ sugar + O2) |
| Niche | all the interactions of a given species with its ecosystem |
| Community | populations of different species that live and interact in the same area. |
| population | A group of members of the same species that live in the same area. |
| species | a group of similar organisms in an ecosystem that can reproduce with each other |
| artificial | Artificial Ecosystem is planned and maintained by people. Examples: City, Zoo, Aquarium, Farm |
| Natural ecosystem | A natural ecosystem is neither planned nor maintained by people. |
| Ecosystem | any network of interacting living & non-living factors |
| Biotic | living, these factors are organism such as plants, animals, mushrooms, bacteria, algae |
| Abiotic | non living things, physical things such as , minerals, air or things measured such as temperature, hours of daylight, salt concentration |
| Ecology | Study of how organisms interact with each other and their environment in a system. |