Ecology Vocabulary

The study of interactions that take place between organisms and their environment.

• microbiology

• histology

• ecosystem

• ecology

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Populations of plants and animals that interact with each other in a given area with the abiotic components of that area.

• habitat

• ecosystem

• community

• ecology

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Nonliving components of the environment.

• abiotic

• biotic

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An individual living thing that is made of cells, uses energy, reproduces, responds, grows, and developsion

• species

• population

• virus

• organism

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An organism’s way of life (role in its environment)

• producer

• consumer

• habitat

• niche

organisms that make their own food. (bottom of the food chain).

• decomposer

• producer

• consumer

• scavenger

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a type of consumer that eats only plants

• decomposer

• producer

• herbivore

• carnivore

an animal that eats other animals

• producer

• decomposer

• herbivore

• carnivore

An animal that eats plants and other animals

• omnivore

• producer

• consumer

• herbivore

an organism that feeds on dead organic material; add nutrients to the soil

• herbivore

• decomposer

• producer

• carnivore

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