Definition/Term
Study of interactions that take place between organisms and their environment
Ecology
Way to show transfer of energy between different levels of organisms, starts from a wide base and ends in a pointed top
Ernergy pyrimad
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism
Prey
A realtioship between two organisms in close proximity
Symbiotic relationships
An idividual living thing that is made of cells, uses energy, reproduces, responds, gows, and develops
organism
The place where an organism lives out it’s life
Habitat
These organisms produce energy through photosynthesis and are at the bottom of the food web
Producers
Organisms that break down natural waste, such as the dead bodies of other organisms
An organism that sustains by living off other speices
Parisite
A group of organisms, all of the same speicies, which interbreed and live in the same area at the same time
All the living parts of an organism’s environment
Biotic Factors
These organisms are heribvores that aquire their energy by consuming producers
primary consumers
An interaction between spieces where one organisms is killed by another and consumed for their energy
Predation
A sybiotic relationship in which both speices benifit
Mutualism
Made up of imteracting populations in a certain area at a certain time
community
The Non-living parts of an organisms environment
ex: Tempature, air, water, soil, air quality
Abiotic Factors
These organisms are typically at the top of the food web and aquire their energy by consuming other consumers
tertiary consumers
An organism that gets energy by consuming organisms that have already been killed by other organisms
Scavenger
A relationship in which one speices benfits and the other is harmed
parasitism
Made up of interacting populations in a biological community and community’s abiotic factors
All strategies and adaptions a speicies uses in it’s environment
Niche
the percentage of energy lost between the transfer of energy between different levels of food web
A term for preadators at the top of the food chain that has no other natural predators
Apex preadtors
A symbiotic relatioship in which one speices benefits and the other speices is neither harmed nor benefited
Commensalism
The part of earth t at supports living things, from high in the atmopshere to the bottom of the oceans
bioshpere