Ecology Flashcards

2428907201	Ecology	Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment	0
2428910025	Ecologist	Studies animals and the way they interact with their environment	1
2428911447	Symbiosis	A relationship in which two different organisms live in close association with each other	2
2428915032	Mutualism	A relationship between two species in which both species benefit	3
2428915964	Commensalism	A relationship between two organisms of different species where one benefits and the other is neither harmed nor benefited	4
2428917928	Parasitism	A relationship between two organisms of different species where one benefits and the other is harmed	5
2428919549	Habitat	Place where an organism lives	6
2428921548	niches	the role of an organism in its habitat, or how it makes its living	7
2428928443	Predator	An animal that hunts other animals for food	8
2428929089	Prey	Animal hunted or caught for food	9
2428930755	Competition	A common demand by two or more organisms upon a limited supply of a resource; for example, food, water, light, space, mates, nesting sites. It may be intraspecific or interspecific.	10
2428931895	Consumer	An organism that eats other organisms	11
2428983355	Producer	An organism that can make its own food.	12
2428984429	Herbivore	A consumer that eats only plants.	13
2428985550	Carnivore	An animal that eats other animals	14
2428986669	Omnivore	An animal that eats both plants and animals	15
2428989664	Decomposer	An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms	16
2428991076	Food Chain	A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten	17
2428993045	Food Web	A complex arrangement of interrelated food chains illustrating the flow of energy between interdependent organisms.	18
2428994575	Organism	A living thing	19
2428996958	Population	A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area	20
2428998236	Community	A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other	21
2429001046	Ecosystem	A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment	22
2429002593	Biosphere	Consists of all life on Earth and all parts of the Earth in which life exists, including land, water, and the atmosphere.	23
2429003769	Solar System	A star orbited by planets.	24
2429004681	Galaxy	A collection of stars, dust, and gas bound together by gravity	25
2429005669	Universe	All of space and everything in it	26
2429006825	Abiotic	Non-living	27
2429007782	Biotic	Living	28
2429008692	Adaptations	Changes in physical structure, function, or behavior that allow an organism or species to survive and reproduce in a given environment.	29
2429009848	Camouflage	The hiding of something as a result of its appearance	30
2429013239	Biome	A group of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms	31
2429014698	Resources	Items needed to survive: water, air, space, light, shelter	32
2429018899	Evolution	Change in a kind of organism over time; process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms.	33
2429020382	Carrying Capacity	The largest population that an area can support	34
2429021193	Limiting Factors	Conditions in the environment that put limits on where an organism can live	35
2429095378	Energy Pyramid	A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web	36