Chapter 10 Vocab
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12 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ecology | The study of the interactions between living and nonliving things |
| Population | A group of interbreeding organisms coexisting together |
| Community | A group of populations living and interacting in the same area |
| Ecosystem | An association of living organisms and their physical environment |
| Biome | A group of ecosystems classified by climate and plant life |
| Primary consumer | An organism that eats producers |
| Secondary consumer | An organism that eats primary sonsumers |
| Tertiary consumers | An organism that eats secondary consumers |
| Ecological pyramid | A diagram that shows the biomass of organisms at each trophic level |
| Biomass | A measure of the total dry mass of organism s within a particular region |
| Transpiration | Evaporation of water from the leaves of a plants |
| Watershed | An ecosystem where all water runoff drains into a single body of water |
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