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EcologyEcology

Portion of earth that supports life.

Biosphere

Nonliving elements in an ecosystem.

Abiotic Factors

Living elements in an ecosystem.

Biotic Factors

All the individuals of the same species in an area.

Population

A collection of interacting populations.

Community

The community plus the physical factors in an

area.

Ecosystem

Variety of life in an area, usually measured as the number of species can

live in an area.

Biodiversity

The place where organisms live out their

lives.

Habitat

The role and position a species has in its

environment.

Niche

Animals that kill and eat other animals.

Predator

Animals that predators hunt, kill and eat.

Prey

The act of one organism feeding on another.

Predation

A word that means “living together.”

Symbiosis

A symbiotic relationship in which one species benefits and

the other species is neither harmed nor benefited.

Commensalism

A symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit.

Mutualism

A symbiotic relationship in which one organism

benefits at the expense of the other.

Parasitism

Organisms that are able to make their own food.

Autotrophs

Organisms that are not able to make their own food. They must ingest

food.

Heterotrophs

Organisms that obtain nutrients by eating other

organisms.

Consumers

Animals that feed on animals that have already

died.

Scavengers

Organisms that feed on dead or decaying plants or animals break them down into simpler molecules and return them to

the soil.

Decomposers

A simple model that scientists use to show how matter and energy move through an ecosystem.

Food Chain

Feeding step in a food chain.

Trophic Level

Energy decreases as tropic level increases.

(True or False)

True

Only 10 percent of energy is transferred from one tropic level to the next.

(True or False)

True

The initial source of energy for ecological pyramids is energy

from where?

The Sun

Cycle where water is reused over and

over again.

The Water Cycle

The air is what percent nitrogen.

78%

6CO2 + 6H2O + sunlight & chlorophyll C6H12O6 + 6O2

Photosynthesis

6O2 + C6H12O6 -->  6H2O + 6CO2 + energy

Cellular Respiration

Plant-eaters

Herbivores

Organism that eat Organism that eat plants and animalsplants and animals

Omnivore

Organism that eat Organism that eat only animals.only animals.

Carnivore

It takes a It takes a large number large number of producers of producers to to support a small support a small

number of primary number of primary consumers. (True or consumers. (True or

False)False)

True

Interconnected food Interconnected food chains that show the chains that show the feeding relationships feeding relationships

in an ecosystemin an ecosystem

Food Web

A J-shaped curve shows what type

of population growth?

Exponential Growth

Cutting down trees to build houses.

Deforestation

This gas causes global warming.

Increased CO2

Another name for autotrophic Nutrition.

Photosynthesis

The number of organisms ofone species that an

environment can support.

Carrying Capacity

Any biotic or abiotic factor that restricts the existence, numbers, reproduction, of distribution of

organisms.

Limiting Factor

The study of human population growth

characteristics.

Demography

Movement of individuals into a population.

Immigration

Movement of individuals out of a population.

Emigration

An increase in the size of a population over time.

Population Growth

An S-Shaped curve shows what kind

of population growth

Logistic Growth