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Ecology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What is ecology? | The study of interactions that take place between organisms and their environment |
| Define Biotic factors | All the living organisms that inhabit an environment |
| Define Abiotic factors | The non-living parts of an organism's environment |
| What are the levels of organization? | Organism, Population, Biological Community, Ecosystem, Biome, Biosphere |
| Define habitat | the place a plant or animal lives in |
| Define niche | an organism's total way of life |
| What factors do growth and survival of a population depend on? | physical condition & available resources |
| What are biotic and abiotic factors that limit population called? | limiting factors |
| Energy in an ecosystem originally comes from... | the sun |
| Define producer (autotroph) | any organism that can produce its own food |
| Define consumer | organisms that can't make their own food |