OHMS Life Science Ecology Vocabulary

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What is a food chain?

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A way to show the feeding relationships between organisms.

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What is a producer?

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An organism that uses sunlight to make its own food.

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What is a population?

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A group of organisms of the same species living in the same area.

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What is competition in ecology?

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A relationship that occurs when two or more organisms of the same species need the same resource at the same time.

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What is a food web?

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A complex network of feeding relationships composed of many food chains.

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What is a consumer?

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An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms.

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What is an ecosystem?

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A community of living organisms interacting with their nonliving environment.

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What is symbiosis?

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A close relationship between two different species that live together.

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What is predation?

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A relationship where one organism (the predator) eats another organism (the prey).

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What is a habitat?

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The natural environment where an organism lives.