Ecology CFA

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What is Parasitism?

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A relationship where one organism benefits at the expense of another, such as aphids feeding on plant leaves.

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What is a Producer?

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An organism that uses sunlight to make its own food, such as plants.

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What is a Decomposer?

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An organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material, or waste, such as fungi and bacteria.

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What is Commensalism?

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A relationship where one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed, such as barnacles on whales.

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What is a Consumer?

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An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms, such as animals.

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Define Ecosystem.

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A community of living organisms interacting with their environment.

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What is Biodiversity?

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The variety of life in a particular habitat or ecosystem.

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What is an Autotroph?

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An organism that produces its own food, primarily through photosynthesis.

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What is a Heterotroph?

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An organism that cannot produce its own food and must consume other organisms.

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What is Symbiosis?

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A close and long-term interaction between two different species.