Important vocabulary for the Unit 1-Ecology.
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| 438739167 | Food Web | A diagram showing all of the interconnected food chains in an ecosystem | |
| 438739168 | Biodiversity | Large variety of organisms and species in an ecosystem | |
| 438739169 | Decomposer | An organism that breaks down dead organisms | |
| 438739170 | Energy Pyramid | A diagram that shows how energy decreases as it travels through the trophic levels of a food chain | |
| 438739171 | Food Chain | A diagram showing how energy passes from one organism to the next in an ecosystem | |
| 438739172 | Omnivore | An organism that eats both plants and animals | |
| 438739173 | Carnivore | An organism that eats only other animals | |
| 438739174 | Herbivore | An organism that eats only other plants | |
| 438739175 | Competition | When two organisms fight over the same resource | |
| 438739176 | Community | All of the different populations of organisms living in an area. | |
| 438739177 | Biosphere | All of the living space on earth. | |
| 438739178 | Ecosystem | Living and nonliving things interacting in an area | |
| 438739179 | Population | All of the members of the same species in an area. | |
| 438739180 | 10% rule | The amount of energy that is transferred from one trophic level to another | |
| 438739181 | Prey | The organism that is hunted | |
| 438739182 | Predator | The organism that hunts others for food. | |
| 438739183 | Adaptation | A trait that helps an organism survive. | |
| 438739184 | Limiting Factor | The scarcest resource that limits a populations size. | |
| 438739185 | Carrying Capacity | The largest population size an ecosystem can hold. | |
| 438739186 | Parasitism | A type of relationship where one organism benefits while the other organism is harmed. | |
| 438739187 | Commensalism | A type of symbiosis where one species benefits and the other is not helped or harmed. | |
| 438739188 | Mutualism | A type of symbiosis where two organisms benefit from their relationship with each other. | |
| 438739189 | Symbiosis | A relationship where to species interact and one is benefitted. | |
| 438739190 | Biotic | Living part of the environment; includes anything made by a living organism | |
| 438739191 | Abiotic | Non living part of the environment | |
| 438739192 | Ecology | The study of how living things interact with other living things and the environment. | |
| 438739193 | Nutrients | Chemicals that living things need and use to live and grow. An example is nitrogen. | |
| 438739194 | Autotroph | Any organism able to make its own food (aka Producer) | |
| 438739195 | Heterotroph | An organism that has to eat other living things to survive (aka consumer) | |
| 438739196 | Energy | Used by organisms to do everything it needs to live | |
| 438739197 | Glucose | A type of sugar created by plants to store energy from the sun. | |
| 438739198 | Tertiary Consumer | Third level consumer. Often top of the food chain | |
| 438739199 | Primary Consumer | The 1st level consumer. Eats producers | |
| 438739200 | Secondary Consumer | Eats 1st level consumers. Often is a predator and a prey | |
| 438739201 | Quaternary Consumer | 4th level consumers. Food chains don't always go this far | |
| 438739202 | Scavenger | An animal that eats other dead animals. | |
| 438739203 | organism | one individual living thing | |
| 438739205 | metabolism | all of the al processes occuring within a living organism to maintain life | |
| 438739206 | Heterotroph | Organism that must eat other living things for food/survival | |
| 582167072 | nitrogen-fixing bacteria | a microscopic organism that can take nitrogen gas from the atmosphere and convert it into a solid form for plants to use. | |
| 582193222 | primary succession | the development of communities in an area with no soil or biotic elements (e.g. bare rock). | |
| 582193223 | climax community | a stable, mature community in a successive series that has reached equilibrium. | |
| 582193224 | biological magnification | process by which pollutants become more concentrated in successive trophic levels of a food web |
