Ecology Vocab (7th grade Life Science)

the study of the interactions that take place among organisms and their environment

• biome

• ecology

• habitat

• ecosystem

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living things within an ecosystem

• abiotic

• organisims

• animals

• biotic

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one of any living thing

• organism

• animal

• prey

• predator

a place where an organism lives and it provides types of shelter, mostiure, and temperature needed for survival.

• home

• biome

• habitat

• ecosystem

an organism that eats producers and consumers; eat both plants and animals

• predator

• omnivore

• carnivore

• producer

eats herbivores, omnivores, or other carnivores

• predator

• prey

• carnivore

• omnivore

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an organism that makes its own food

• producer

• prey

• consumer

• predator

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an organism that cannot make its own food; a heterotroph that must consume other organisms for food and energy to survive

• decomposer

• producer

• consumer

• niche

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organisms that consume wastes and dead organisms

• herbivore

• decomposer

• niche

• symbosis

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a chain showing how energy passes from one organism to the next

• food chain

• food web

• energy flow

• energy pyramid

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