Ecology

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What is Ecology?

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Ecology is the study of how living things interact with each other and their environment.

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What is a Tertiary Consumer?

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A tertiary consumer is an animal that eats secondary consumers in a food chain.

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What is Parasitism?

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Parasitism is a relationship between two species where one organism benefits and the other is harmed.

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What is a Trophic Level?

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A trophic level is each step in the transfer of energy and matter in a food chain.

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What is a Heterotroph?

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A heterotroph is an organism that cannot produce its own food and must eat other organisms.

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What is a Producer?

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A producer is an organism that makes its own food, usually through photosynthesis.

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What is a Food Web?

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A food web is a complex network of feeding relationships among organisms in an ecosystem.

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What is an Apex Predator?

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An apex predator is a predator at the top of the food chain with no natural enemies.

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What is Mutualism?

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Mutualism is a relationship between two species where both benefit from the interaction.

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What is Commensalism?

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Commensalism is a relationship where one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.