Ecology Vocabulary

Study of the interactions that take place among organisms and their environment

• Biotic Factors

• Ecology

• Predator

• Food Chain

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Living things within an ecosystem

• Biotic Factors

• Herbivores

• Predator

• Symbiosis

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One of any living thing

• Ecosystem

• Niche

• Organism

• Energy Pyramid

Place where an organism lives and that provides the types of food, shelter, moisture, and temperature needed for survival.

• Habitat
• Environment
• Territory
• Ecosystem

Chain showing how energy passes from one organism to the next

• food chain
• energy chain
• life chain
• organism chain

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Eat producers

• Omnivores

• herbivores

• Niche

• Producer

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Any close relationship between species, including mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism.

• interdependence
• symbiosis
• coexistence
• collaboration

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Animal that hunts and kills other animals for food. A predator is a consumer [ carnivore or omnivore]

• carnivore
• herbivore
• Predator

• Carrying capacity

Largest number if individuals of a particular species that an ecosystem can support over time

• Species threshold
• Population limit
• Carrying capacity
• Maximum capacity

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Non-living parts of the ecsystem- air/water/ soil/sun

• Environmental factors
• Living organisms
• Biotic factors
• Abiotic factors

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