ecology
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ecology | The relationship between living and non living organisms |
| Six levels | Species, population, community, eco-system, biome, biosphere |
| observation | to watch what goes on in an environment |
| experimenting | In a lab, so you don't harm the environment, set up an eco-system to test. |
| modeling | creating a replica of something in the environment |
| Abiotic | non living organisms in an environment |
| Biotic | living organisms in an environment |
| Habitat | Where organisms live |
| Niche | The part organisms play in a habitat |
| Preditor/prey relationship | Short term relationship, preditor kills and eats prey. |
| Symbiosis | any long term or close personal relaionship between 2 species |
| Commensalism | One organism is benifited and one dies. |
| mutualism | both organisms are benefitted |
| parasitism | one organism is benifited andone is unfazed |
| Interspecies competition | competition between different species |
| intraspecies competition | competition between organisms of the same species |
| Limiting factors | limits how large a factor can grow. Biotic or ABiotic |
| producers | Autotrouve. Converts solar energy into food energy |
| Consumers | Eat producers to get energy. |
| Herbivors | Primaryconsumer. They only eat plants. |
| Carlivores | Preditors, scavengers, saprophytes, omnivores. They may eat plants or mostly animals |
| Scavengers | feed off dead orgaqnisms they did not kill |
| Primary consumers | Eat the consumers eat the producers |
| secondary consumers | only eat other producers |
| Decomposers | They break down dead organisms and take in some nutrients and release some in the soil. |
| Enerygy pyramids | Shows the amount of energy passed on. |
| Food webs | Represents relationships in an eco-system. |
| Carrying capacity | Number of organisms that carry support |
| Ecological succesion | one community replaces another to maintain a forming new stable organisms |
| Pioneer community | First community to enter and survive in a destroyed eco-system. |
| Climax community | No longer going through succession. Stable. Lots of biodiversity |
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