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Ecologie-Ecology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ecology | the study of relationships between plants, animals and their enviroment. |
| A habitat | the area where a plant or animals lives. |
| Producers | plants that make their own food. |
| Consumers | animals that get their food by eating plants plants or other animals. |
| A herbivore | an animal that eats plants only. |
| A carnivore | an animal that eats other animals only. |
| An omnivore | an animal that eats both plants and animals. |
| Decomposers | organisms that feed on dead plants and animals. |
| A food chain | a list of organisms in which each organism is eaten by the next one in the chain. |
| An adaptation | a structure or habit that helps an organism to survive in its habitat. |
| Competition | takes place when 2 or more organisms require something that is in short supply |
| A food web | consists of 2 or more interconnected food chains. |
| Interdependence | living things depend on each other for survival. |
| A pooter, beating tray and pitfall trap | devices used to collect animals. |
| A quadrat | a frame used to estimate the number of plants in a habitat. |
| A line transect | a rope marked at regular intervals and laid out across a habitat to estimate the number of plants present. |
| Conservation | the protection and wise management of natural resources. |
| Pollution | the addition of harmful materials to the enviroment. |
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