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Ecology Quiz
BLA study
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is MY NAME | FATSO |
| What is ecology | Ecology is the scientific study of the way that living organisms interact with their environment. |
| Ecosystems | all living things and non-living things that interact in an area |
| Habitat | the place where organism lives |
| Niche | Organism's role or job in its habitat |
| competition | the struggle between organism to survive in a habitat with limited resources |
| population | a group of some kind of organism to have something else |
| predator | any animal that live by preying on other animals |
| prey | the organism that is killed for food |
| Ecologist | scientists who study ecology |
| evidence | proof |
| trade-offs | when you give some thing to have something else |
| introduced species | Species that moves in to an ecosystem as a result of human action |
| Energy flow | the flow of energy from an ecosystem to an organism and from one organism to another |
| inference | a conclusion one draw ( infers) based on premises or evidence |
| consumer | organisms that obtain food by eating other organisms |
| photosynthesis | the process by which plants make food |
| plankton | Tiny organisms that float in the water |
| producer | an organism that makes its own food |
| decomposer | organism that breaks down the wastes or remains of other organisms |
| Microbe | an organism invisible to the naked eye, especially one that causes disease |
| environment | the area in which something exists or lives |
| carrying capacity | The largest population that an area can support |