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Ecology
Ecology vocabulary words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| nonliving part of environment | abiotic |
| living part of the environment or once living | biotic |
| all the living and nonliving things with which an organism may interact | environment |
| an organism that makes its own food | producers |
| organism that eats producers or other organisms for energy | consumer |
| eats producers | primary consumer |
| eats primary consumer | secondary consumer |
| eats secondary consumer | tertiary consumer |
| a large region characterized by a specific climate and the plants and animals that live there | Biome |
| a living part of an ecosystem | community |
| a series of events in which food energy is transferred to other organisms | food chain |
| diagram of overlapping food chains | food web |
| a unit consisting of living and non living things in an area which interact | ecosystem |
| the study of the relationships between living things and their environment | ecology |
| the place in which an organism lives and obtains the resources it needs to survive | habitat |
| a group of organisms of the same species living together in the same area | population |
| eats only plants | herbivore |
| eats only animals (flesh/meat) | carnivore |
| eats both plants and animals | omnivore |
| an organism that kills and eats another organism | predator |
| an organism that is eaten by a predator | prey |
| an organism that breaks down the bodies of dead organisms | decomposer |
| a form of symbiosis in which both organisms benefit | mutualism |
| a close relationship between 2 organisms and at least one organism benefits | symbiosis |
| a form of symbiosis in which one organism benifits and the other is destroyed | parasitism |
| an orderly seriesof changes an ecosystem goes through as it develops or regrows | succession |
| begins in an area where there were no organisms (usually no soil, just rock) | primary succession |
| begins in an area where a community has been disturbed such as flood, fire, or farming. soil is present | secondary succession |
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