Ecology Vocab
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Producer
An organism that can make its own food.
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Consumer
An organism that eats other organisms
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Decomposer
An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
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photosynthesis
a process used by plants to make their own food from the sun's energy
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Ecosystem
A community of organisms and their abiotic environment
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Biotic
living things
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Abiotic
Non-living things
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carrying capacity
Largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support
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limiting factor
An environmental factor that prevents a population from increasing
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trophic level
Each step in a food chain, food web, or an energy pyramid
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Herbivore (Primary Consumer)
A consumer that eats plants for energy
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Omnivore
Consumers that eat both plants and animals.
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Carnivore
A consumer that eats only animals.
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food web
A community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains
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Equilibrium
A state of balance
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Biodiversity
the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
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predator-prey relationship
Interaction between two organisms of different species in which one organism captures and feeds on parts or all of another organism
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Parasite-host relationship
when one organism feeds on another organism without killing it
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apex predator
the predator on the top of the food web
