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Ecology Vocab.
Ecology Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The study of the interaction between an organism and its environment | Ecology |
| Living things such as plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, etc. that influence their surroundings | Biotic Factors |
| Nonliving things such as natural disasters, weather, chemicals, etc. that influence their surroundings | Abiotic Factors |
| organisms that make their own food | Producers |
| organisms that get their energy from eating other organisms | Consumers |
| organism that eats a producer | Primary Consumer |
| organism that eats another consumer | Secondary Consumer |
| organism that gets its energy from the waste of other living or once living things | Decomposers |
| Latin root word for energy | Troph |
| "Self energy"; another name for a producer | Autotroph |
| "Other energy"; a term for both consumers and decomposers | Heterotroph |
| Consumer that is a plant eater | Herbivore |
| Consumer that is a meat or flesh eater | Carnivore |
| Consumer that eats plants and animals | Omnivore |
| The maximum number of organisms in a population that an ecosystem can sustain | Carrying Capacity |
| Factors that determine the carrying capacity of a population | Limiting Factors |
| Method used by scientists to estimate the size of a population | Sampling |
| Biome with permafrost, no large trees, and can be either in the arctic or alpine (mountainous regions) | Tundra |
| Biome with hot temperatures but very little water; often found around 30 degrees latitude | Desert |
| Biome with seasonal temperatures, no trees, and large herbivores like bison | Grassland |
| Biome with seasonal temperatures, heavy precipitation to support trees with leaves that fall each winter | Deciduous forest |
| Biome with cold and snowy winters; contains many trees that produce pine cones (evergreen) | Coniferous forest |
| Biome with high temperatures and the most rainfall of any other biome; usually found around the equator. | Tropical rainforest |
| Biome that has rainy winters and hot dry summers; often found close to oceans; Southern California | Chaparral |
| Grassland of Africa | Savanna |
| A species that has a large effect on other organisms in its ecosystem. When this species is removed from an ecosystem there is a ripple effect through most of the ecosystem. | Keystone species |
| This is an organism's role in it environment which includes habitat, what it eats, what could eat it, when it is active, etc. | Niche |
| Means "living together"; a very close relationship between two organisms with at least one organism benefiting from the interaction | Symbiotic relationship |
| Symbiotic relationship with one organism benefiting and the other staying neutral | Commensalism |
| Symbiotic relationship with one organism benefiting and the other being harmed | Parasitism |
| Symbiotic relationship with one organism benefiting and the other benefiting as well | Mutualism |
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