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Period Ecology Vocabulary
Coach Andrews
Ashton
• Ecosystem
– Communities living in a similar habitat
• Symbiosis
– Close relationship between 2 different species
Carlos
• Herbivore
– Feeds only on plants, producers and autotrophs
• Elephants, cow
• Carnivore
– Feeds only on animals
• Lions
Alicia
• Omnivore
– Eats plants and animals
• Human, bear
• Decomposer
– Feeds on dead plants and animals
• Fungi, bacteria
Michelle
• Consumer
– Organism that feeds on plants or other animals
• Trophic Level
– Class of organism that occupy the same position in
a food chain such as primary, secondary and
tertiary.
Sierra
• Secondary Consumer
– Carnivore that only feeds on herbivore
• Tertiary Consumer
– Animal that is second to the top of a food chain
that feeds on other carnivores or secondary
consumers
Mia
• Ecological Succession
– Process by which an ecological community
undergoes more or less orderly and predictable
changes following a disturbance.
• Biomass
– Biological material from organisms as an energy
source
Haleigh
• Detrivore
– Organisms that feed on other dead organism
• Crow, Buzzard
• Producer
– Organism that makes their own food through
photosynthesis or chemosynthesis.
T Jay
• Food Web
– Several food chains, more realistic view of an
ecosystem
• Food Pyramid
– Graphic representation of the structure of a food
chain. Broad base of producers tapering to a
point of consumes
Krista
• Autotroph
– Any organism capable of self nourishment by
using inorganic materials as a source of nutrients.
• Grass, trees, flowers
• Heterotroph
– Organism requiring organic compounds for its
principle source of food.
• People, cows, animals
Sefra
• Abiotic factors
– Non living factors of an ecosystem
• Biotic factors
– Living factors of an ecosystem
Lateasha
• Predation
– Preying of one animal on others
• Parasitism
– Relation between two different kinds of organisms
in which one receives benefits from the other by
causing damage to the other
Paige
• Limiting factor
– Any biotic or abitotic factor that restricts the
existence of an organism in an ecosystem.
• Sunlight, Soil, water
– Carrying Capacity
• Number of organisms of a species that an environment
can support
– Cows on a farm
Tinikia
• Pioneer Species
– Repopulate an are after a disturbance
• Top Predator
– Animal that does not have any natural predators