Term |
Definition |
Ecology |
The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment |
habitat |
The places where an organism lives and that provides the things the organism needs |
Niche |
An organisms particular role in an ecosystem or how it makes its living |
Environment |
The surrounding or conditions in which a person, animal or plant lives |
Species |
A group of similar organisms whose members can mate with one another and produce fertile offspring |
Population |
All the members of one species in a particular area |
Community |
All the different populations that live together in an area |
Ecosystem |
All the living and nonliving that interact in an area |
Biome |
Group of ecosystems that have have the same climate and similar dominant communities |
Succession |
The series of predictable changes that occur in a community overtime |
Pioneer Organism |
The first organism to populate an area |
Climax Community |
Last community in a successful |
Producers |
Organisms that make its own food |
Consumers |
Organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms |
Herbivore |
Animal that only eats plants |
Carnivore |
Animal that only eats meat/animals |
Omnivore |
Animal that eats both plants and animals |
Decomposer |
Organisms that breaks down and returns important materials to soil + H20 large chemicals from dead materials organisms into small chemicals |
Mutualism |
A type of symbiosis in which both partners benefit from living together |
Parasitism |
A relationship in which one organism lives on or inside another and harms it |
Commensalism |
Relationship between 2 species in which one species benefits + the other is neither helped nor harmed |
Transpiration |
Process by which H20 is lost through plant's leaves |
Condensation |
Process by which a gas changes to a liquid |
Legumes |
Plants that have bumps called nodules on their roots |
Limiting Factor |
An environment factor that prevents a population from increasing |
Carrying Capacity |
The largest population that an area can support |