Learner Resource 5 – Ecology terms
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Species
Organisms that eat producers
Abiotic factors
The variety of different species in an ecosystem
Biotic factors
Sequence of plants and animals colonising an area over a period of time
Photosynthesis
Where an organism lives
Ecosystem
Organisms that convert light energy into chemical energy
Habitat
The process by which energy enters an ecosystem
Population
Organisms that eat primary consumers
Diversity
Energy stored in biological molecules of organisms
Trophic levels
A group of organisms which are capable of interbreeding to produce fertile
offspring
Producers
An ecological unit that includes all the interactions between the living and
non-living features in their environment
Primary
consumers
All the individuals of the same species living in a habitat
Secondary
consumers
Biological/living features of the environment that have an effect on the
population
Tertiary
consumers
Organism that feeds on vegetation
Herbivore
Rainfall, soil and pH
Biomass
Organisms that eat secondary consumers
Succession
Stages in a food chain
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Photosynthesis, food production and populations
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