Ecology:
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- Population
- all organisms that constitue a specific group or occur in a specified habitat
- Community
- grp of plants and animals living and interacting in a specific region in similar enviromental conditions;
- Diversity
- Variety of multifomity
- Predation
- capturing of prey as a means of maintainging life
- Parasitism
- characteristic behavior or mode of existence of a parasite or parasitic population
- Mutualism
- association between organisms of two different species in which each member benefits
- Succession
- Gradual and orderly process of ecosysytem development brought about by changes in community composition and the production of a climax characteristic of a particular geographic region
- Ecosystem
- ecological community together with its envioronment, functioning as a unit
- Aquatic
- Consisting of or being in water
- Terrestrial
- Living or growing on land
- Producers
- photosynthetic green plant or chemosynthetic bacterium constituting the 1st trophic level in the food chain; sutotrophic organism
- Consumers
- heterotrophic organism that ingests other organisms or organic matter in a food chain
- Decomposers
- organism that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter, thus making organic nutrients abailable to the ecosystem
- Autotrophs
- organisms capable of synthesizing its own food from inorganic substances, using light or chemical energy
- Heterotrophs
- organism that cannot synthesize its own food and is dependent on complex organic substances for nutrition
- Food Chain
- Succession of organisms in an ecological community that constitutes a continuation of food energy from one organism to another as each consumes a lower member and it turns its preyed upon by a higher member