Ecology Vocabulary

The branch of science that deals with the complex relationships among living things and their environment

• Ecology

• Ecologist

• Ecosystem

• Conservationist

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Individual plant, animal or other living things.

• Organism

• Community

• Ecosystem

• Population

A group of similar organisms that is found in a defined area

• Population

• Community

• Ecosystem

• Orgainism

All of the populations of organisms that live within a defined area such as a woodland, marsh, or cornfield.

• Community

• Population

• Organisms

• Terrestrial

an organism capable of making its own food through the process of photosynthesis

• consumer
• omnivore
• producer or autotroph
• carnivore

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a system that includes all the biotic and abiotic factors in an area

• ecosystem
• abiotic
• homeostasis
• combustion

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an organism that eats another organism

• parasitism
• competition
• consumer
• herbivore

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an organism that eats plants and animals

• herbivore
• omnivore
• carnivore
• vegetarian

an organism that breaks down dead or decaying organisms

• decomposer
• autotroph
• producer
• predator

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living

• abiotic
• breathing
• biotic
• herbivore

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