Ecology & Trophic Levels
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Energy
The ability to do work or function.
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Trophic Level
The position an organism holds in a food chain.
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Food Chain
Illustrates a single energy pathway in an ecosystem.
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Food Web
Displays interconnected food chains in an environment.
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Equilibrium
Stable state where biotic and abiotic factors are balanced.
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Producer
Organism that produces its own food/energy (autotroph).
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Photosynthesis
Process where plants use sunlight to create food and oxygen.
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Consumer
Organism that feeds on other organisms (heterotroph).
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Herbivore
Consumer that exclusively eats plants.
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Carnivore
Consumer that solely consumes other animals.
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Omnivore
Consumer that eats both plants and animals.
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Decomposer
Organism that breaks down dead organisms and recycles nutrients.
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Scavenger
Carnivore that consumes dead animal remains.
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Ecology
The scientific study of how living things interact with each other and the environment.
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Biotic Factors
The living parts of an environment.
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Abiotic Factors
The nonliving parts of an environment.
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Organism
An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
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Species
A group of organisms that are physically and genetically similar and can reproduce with each other.
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Population
All the members of a species living in a particular area.
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Community
All the different populations that live together in a particular geographic area.
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Ecosystem
A biological community of interacting populations of organisms and including the physical environment they share.
