Ecology Vocabulary

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Meaning: Same species, same place, same time

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Word: Population

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Meaning: Different species living together

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Word: Community

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Levels of Ecology

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Species, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biosphere

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Term for all living things in an ecosystem

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Biotic factors

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Examples of biotic factors

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Animals and plants

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Food webs

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Complex networks of interconnected food chains in an ecosystem.

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Tertiary consumer

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An organism that eats secondary consumers, such as a snake.

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Modeling energy flow

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Using food chains and webs to represent how energy moves through an ecosystem.

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Importance of food chains

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They help understand the balance and health of ecosystems.

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Materials flow

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The movement of nutrients and elements through an ecosystem.