Ecology-T1 Revision

Ecology

Study of interactions between plants, animals and the environment in which they live in.

Ecosystem

System formed by a group of living things that interact with each other and non-living surroundings.

Photosynthesis

Process where plants produce own food from glucose.

Hetrotroph

Living things that can’t photosynthesize.

Habitat

Where an organism lives

Population

All individuals of one specie

Sunlight

Energy from the sun needed to photosynthesize.

Community

All the living organisms in an ecosystem.

Abiotic

Never living.

Biotic

Was/is living

Detrivore

Animal feeds on dead organic matter.

Decomposer

Organisms that obtain their nutrients by breaking down dead bodies of other organisms and then return the nutrients to the soil.