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 |