Ecology Vocab
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| Ecology | The study of how living things interact with one another and their enviorment.
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| organism | A living thing.
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| population | A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area.
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| fluctuate | To rise and fall.
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| Food chain | Diagram showing one particular example of feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
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| Food web | Diagram showing all feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
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| predator | An animal that hunts and eats other animals.
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| prey | An animal that is hunted for food.
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| producer | An organism that makes its own food through photosynthesis.
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| consumer | An organism that eats other living things for energy.
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| trophic level | Feeding level in a food chain or web.
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| energy pyramid | A diagram that shows the availible energy at each feedinglevel in an ecosystem.
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| decomposer | An organism that breaks down dead organisms and recycles nutrients back into the enviorment.
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| carrying capacity | The largest population an ecosystem can support over timr.
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| limiting factor | An enviormental factor that prevents a population from increasing.
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| symbiosis | A close relationship between species where at least one organism benefits.
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| mutualism | A symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit.
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| commensalism | A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and one is unaffected.
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| parasitism | A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other one is harmed.
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| parasite | The organism in parasitism that benefits.
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| host | The organism in parasitism that is harmed.
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