Ecology
Practice the ecology vocabulary to study for your test.
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- habitat
- an animal or plant's home in the wild
- scavenger
- species of animals that eat animals that are already dead; ex: vultures
- community
- a number of populations of organisms living in the same area and interacting with each other
- decomposers
- living organisms that break down living and/or once-living organisms to obtain food energy
- niche
- the role that a species plays in its community
- food chain
- simple, linear diagram of the flow of energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem
- prey
- an animal that is hunted and eaten
- food web
- complex diagram that shows the transfer of energy from one living organism to another; contains many threads because one organism may consume more than one thing
- consumers
- living things that eat other living things to obtain energy
- herbivore
- an animal that eats plants
- carnivore
- eats meat; meat eater
- omnivore
- an animal that eats both plants and animals; consumer
- population
- a group of animals of the same species living in the same area
- ecosystem
- communities interacting together
- producer:
- species that make their own food using photosynthesis; plants and some forms of bacertia