Unit 7 Organisms and Their Environment

The area where an organism lives

• ecology

• population

• habitat

• community

A group of organisms living in the same area

• ecology

• population

• habitat

• community

All the organisms, of all the different species, living in the same area

• ecology

• population

• habitat

• community

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The study of the interaction between living organisms and their environment

• ecology

• population

• habitat

• community

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An _________ consists of a community and its environment

A network of interconnected food chains

• food flow

• food table

• food chart

• food web

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A diagram showing the flow of energy from one organism to the next, beginning with a producer

• food link

• food chain

• food court

• foodball

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An organism that makes its own organic nutrients, usually using energy from sunlight, through photosynthesis

• producer

• decomposer

• herbivore

• consumer

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An organism that gets its energy by feeding on other organisms

• consumer

• producer

• buyer

• seller

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An animal that gets its energy from eating plants

• omnivore

• carnivore

• herbivore

• marbivore

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