Ecology Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| Producer | organism that can make its own food, using sunlight |
| Primary Consumer | organism that eat only producers such as herbivores(grasshoppers eat grass) |
| Secondary Consumer | organism that eat the primary consumers (frogs eat grasshoppers) |
| Tertiary Consumer | organism that eat the secondary consumer ( snakes eat frogs) |
| Ecology | Study of how living things interact with one another and with their environment |
| biomes | a group of ecosystems with similar climates and organism |
| habitat | place where an organism lives and provides the things the organism needs |
| biotic | living factors within an ecosystem like animals, plants, bacteria, fungi |
| abiotic | nonliiving factors within an ecosystem such as water , sunlight, oxygen, temperature , and soil |
| organism | a living thing that has an organized structure, can react to stimuli, reproduce, grow, adapt |
| community | all the different populations that live together within a particular area9elephants, giraffe, zebras) |
| population | all members of one species in a particular area (elephants ) |
| biosphere | the surface, atmosphere (air), and hydrosphere(water) occupied by living organisms. |
| species | a group of living organisms made of similar indivinteracting duals |
| ecosystem | all of the living and nonliving factors interacting within a particular area |
| symbiosis | Interaction between two species |
| mutualism | both partners benefit from living together |
| commensalism | when one partner is benefiting while the other is not benefitting or being harmed |
| parasitism | when one partner is living on or inside another and harming it |
| food chain | series of events in which one organism eats another |
| food web | many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem |
| food pyramid | shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web |
| 10% rule | organisms only get 10% energy from the organism they eat |
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