Question | Answer |
Ecology | The study of the interactions of living organisms with one another and with their environment. |
Biotic | Describes living factors in the environment. |
Abiotic | Describes the nonliving part of the environment, including water, rocks, light, and temperature. |
Organism | A living thing; anything that can carry out life processes independently. |
Habitat | Natural surroundings, home, or domain. |
Population | A group of organisms of the same species that live in a specific geographical area. |
Community | All of the populations of species that live in the same habitat and interact with each other. |
Ecosystem | A community of organisms and their abiotic, or nonliving, environment. |
Biosphere | The part if Earth where life exists. |
Producer | An organism that can make its own food by using energy from its surroundings. |
Consumer | An organism that eats other organisms or organic matter. |
Decomposer | An organism that gets energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms or animal wastes and consuming or absorbing the nutrients. |
Herbivore | An organism that eats only plants. |
Carnivore | An organism that eats animals. |
Omnivore | An organism that eats both plants and animals. |
Food Chain | The pathway of energy transfer through various stages as a result of the feeding patterns of a series of organisms. |
Food Web | The pathway of energy transfer through various stages as a result of the feeding patterns of a series of organism. |
Energy Pyramid | A triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem’s loss of energy, which results as energy passes through the ecosystem’s food chain. |