Ecology Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Autotroph | Organism that makes it's own food from sunlight |
| Producer | Something that can make it's own food, like a plant |
| Photosynthesis | Process in which plants make food using sunlight |
| Heterotroph | Has to eat food, can't make it's own food |
| Consumer | Has to eat, can't make it's own food |
| Herbivore | Eats only plants |
| Carnivore | Eats only meat |
| Omnivore | Eats plants and animals |
| Detrivore | Something that actually eats dead things, like a worm or turkey vulture |
| Decomposer | Breaks dead stuff down with chemicals |
| Food Chain | Who eats who, one single path |
| Food Web | A complex system of who eats who, shows lost of combinations |
| Trophic Level | All the living organisms that eat at the same energy level |
| Ecological Pyramid | Diagram that shows energy flow through an ecosystem |
| Biotic Factor | Part of an ecosystem that is living |
| Habitat | The place that a plant or animal lives |
| Ecosystem | The community plus the surroundings of non-living factors |
| Population | The same species, same time, same place |
| Biosphere | Part of the earth where you find living things |
| Abiotic Factor | Part of an ecosystem that is not alive |
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