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Scientific study of all the interrelationships between organisms and their environment |
Ecology |
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Relatively thin layer of earth and its atmosphere that supports life |
Biosphere |
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Group of organisms of the same species that occupy the same geographic place at the same time |
Population |
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Group of interacting populations that live in the same geographic area at the same time |
Community |
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Biological community and all of the nonliving factors that affect it |
Ecosystem |
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Organism that captures energy from sunlight or inorganic substances to produce its own food; provides The foundation of the food supply for other organisms; a.k.a. producer |
Autotroph/producer |
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Organism that cannot make its own food and gets its nutrients and energy requirements by feeding on other organisms; a.k.a. consumer |
Heterotroph/consumer |
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Heterotroph that decomposes organic material and returns the nutrients to soil, air, and water, making the nutrients available to other organisms |
Ditritivore |
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Make or become rotten, decay or cause to decay |
Decomposer |
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Simplified model that shows Singlepath for energy flow through an ecosystem |
Food chain |
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Model that shows many interconnected food chains and pathways in which energy and matter flow through an ecosystem |
Food web |
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Each step in a food chain or food web |
Trophic level |
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A diagram that shows the relative amount of energy or matter contained within each trophic level in a food chain or food web |
Ecological pyramid |
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Total mass of living matter at each trophic level |
Biomass |
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