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Ecology Pt 1
Ecology Science 7 Part 1
Term | Definition |
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ecology | the study of how organisms and non living things interact in an environment |
biosphere | the part of Earth with life |
ecosystem | includes the living and non living parts of an environment |
community | made of all the populations in an ecosystem |
population | all of the organisms in an environment that are the same species |
Five levels of environmental organization | biosphere, ecosystem, community, population, organism |
habitat | the place where an organism lives provides food, shelter, and appropriate amount of heat and moisture |
biotic | all organisms that live together and interact with one another in an environment |
abiotic | all the non living factors in an environment (i.e. water, soil, light) |
ecologist | a scientist who studies ecology |
biodiversity | variety of all living things and their interactions in their ecosystem |