Ecology Part 1 2024

All the organisms in a particular location, including their nonliving environment.

Photosynthesis.

Break down dead material.

A resource or condition that limits the growth, abundance, or distribution of an organism or a population.

When one population increases, it causes the other to increase shortly after.

The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods with the help of chlorophyll.

Organisms that produce their own food, typically through photosynthesis, such as plants.

Organisms that obtain energy by consuming other organisms.

A linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.

A complex network of feeding relationships among various organisms in an ecosystem.