Ecology Quiz 1
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Created by:
MsCBS on October 30, 2008
Subjects:
organisms, food and energy relationships
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Review for Ecology Quiz 1
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18 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ecology | The study of the interactions between living and nonliving thins in the environment |
| Community | Only the living things in an area |
| Biotic | Living things |
| Abiotic | Nonliving things |
| Ecosystem | All the living and nonliving an organism interacts with |
| Population | A group of the same type of animal living in the same area |
| Species | The same type of organism the can produce viable offspring |
| Habitat | the place an organism lives and obtains the resources it needs to survive |
| Producers | Organisms that make their own food |
| Consumers | Organisms that can not make their own food |
| Herbivore | Eat only plants |
| Carnivore | Eat only meat |
| Omnivore | Eat both plants and animals |
| Scavenger | Eat dead organisms |
| Decomposers | Organisms that breakdown dead organisms and return the nutrients to the soil |
| Energy Roles | How an organism obtains food and energy |
| Food chain | Show the feeding relationships between organisms |
| Food Webs | Many connecting food chains |
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