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Ecology
ecology
Question | Answer |
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Ecology | study of organisms and their relationships to each other and to their environment |
rule to energy pyramid | one tenth of the energy is transfered up |
consumers | get energy from eating lower animals |
turn dead organisms back to organic material | decomposers |
use the sun or chemicals to change inorganic compounds into energy | producers |
carnivores | eat only animals |
omnivores | eat plants and animals |
herbivores | eat only plants |
detrivores | eat already dead organisms, scavengers |
sybiosis | relationship between organisms |
abiotic | nonliving |
biotic | living |
carrying capacity | the amount of individuals an area can hold |
logistic growth | grows quickly and levels off, happens with limited resources |
exponential growth | graph gets steeper and steeper, ideal rescources |
predation vs parasitism | animal is killed, animal is harmed |
biodiversity | different organisms in an area |