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Review Vocabulary
Basic vocabulary for learning Ecology.
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6th Grade
09/09/2012

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Term
Population
Definition
All of the interacting individuals of one kind in an area.
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Community
Definition
All interacting populations in a specified area.
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Ecosystem
Definition
System of interacting organisms and nonliving factors in a specified area.
Term
Abiotic
Definition

 

Non living.

 

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Biotic
Definition
Living organisms and products of organism
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Food Chain
Definition

Sequence of organisms that eat on another

 

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Organism
Definition

 

living thing

 

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Habitat
Definition

 

Where an organism lives

 

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Aquatic
Definition

 

Of the water

 

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Food Web
Definition
Diagram of feeding relationships in an ecosystem
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Terrestrial
Definition

 

Of the land

 

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Producer
Definition
Organisms that make food
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Consumer
Definition
Organisms that eat other organisms
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Decomposer
Definition

 

Microorganisms that break down and consume dead organisms.

 

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Limiting Factor
Definition

 

Any biotic or abiotic component of the ecosystem that controls the population size.

 

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Species
Definition

 

A kind of organism that is different from all other kinds of organisms.

 

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Photosynthesis
Definition

 

Process by which energy-rich molecules are made from water, carbon dioxide and light.

 

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Life Cycle
Definition

 

When an organism produces a new generation of its kind.

 

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Environment
Definition

 

Surroundings of an organism.

 

 

 

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Trophic Levels
Definition

 

Level in a food web through which energy flows.

 

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Herbivore
Definition
an animal that gets its energy from eating plants, and only plants.
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Carnivore
Definition

 

an animal that gets food from killing and eating other animals.

 

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Omnivore
Definition

 

a kind of animal that eats either other animals or plants.

 

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