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1. Ecology

2. Define Ecology
• study of the interactions that take place
among organisms and their
environment

3. Describe each of the following
terms:
• Biotic- living species
• Abiotic- non living things

4. Describe each of the following
terms:
• Biome- large geographic areas with similar
climates and ecosystems

5. Describe each of the following
terms:
• Organism – one of any living thing
• Population - all the organisms that belong
to the same species living in a community
• Community - all the populations of
different species that live in an ecosystem

6. Describe each of the following
terms:
• Ecosystem - all the living organisms that
live in an area and the nonliving features
of their environment

7. Describe each of the following
terms:
• Habitat - place where an organism lives and
that provides the types of food, shelter, moisture,
and temperature needed for survival

8. Describe each of the following
terms:
• Producer - organism, such as a green
plant or algae, that uses an outside source
of energy like the Sun to create energy-
rich food molecules

9. consumer
• - organism that cannot create energy-rich
molecules but obtains its food by eating
other organisms

10. decomposer
• Decomposer – consume wastes and
dead organisms

12. Describe each of the following
terms:
• Predator – an animal that hunts and kills
other animals for food. A predator is a
consumer [carnivore or omnivore]
• Prey – an animal that is hunted and
caught for food. Prey is a consumer; it
may be a herbivore, omnivore, or
carnivore.

13. Describe each of the following
terms:
• Herbivore – eat producers ( veg)
• Carnivore – animals eat other animals(
Non veg)
• Omnivore – eat producers and
consumers (both vg and non veg)

14. Describe each of the following
terms:
• Food chain – sequence of eating and
being eaten in an ecosystem
• Food web - Complex network of many
interconnected food chains