Ecology Flashcards
Ecosystem
all living and non living things in a area
Jeremy
Ashby
Ecology
The study of all living and non living things
Deforestation
Cutting down of lots of trees in an area
Population
The amount of species in an area
Community
all the living things in a area and that can interact with each other
Biodiversity
Living things in an area with differences
Habitat
Where a certain species lives
Niche
What job or role a animal plays in the environment
Host
The animal infected by the parasite
Scavenger
An animal that eats recently dead animals or eats the left overs
Decomposer
The end of the line everything that’s died Goes here and gets recycled
Carrying Capacity
The max animals that a area can handle of animals
Interact
The living things and dead things interacting for the benefits or not
Primary consumer
Eats the grass
Secondary consumer
Eats the animal that eats the grass
Tertiary consumer
Eats the 2nd consumer
Food chain
What animal eats what then what gets eaten by what
Food web
The energy transferred to the animal that ate it
Energy pyramid
Showing the energy as it moves along the food chain
Competition
When two or more animals compete with each other for food and resources
Symbiosis
close relationship between diff species
Predation
the preying of one animal on others.
Predator
An animal that’s eats smaller prey animals
Prey
Is food for preds
Is a primary consumer
Limiting factors
Conditions in an environment puts a limit on the size the population can grow to
Ex common living factors such as food preds habitat
Producer
Makes food by using the sun
Consumer
Eats the producer
2nd consumer eats the primary consumer
Herbivore
Eats grass
Carnivore
Eats meat only
Omnivore
Eats plants and animals
Mutualism
Both benefit
Commensalism
Only one benefits
Parasitism
One benefits and one gets harmed
Parasite
A animal/bacteria gets inside an animal and gets it slowly benefiting itself and killing the host
Introduced species
A animal that was introduced and is hurting the environment greatly
Autotroph
Makes its own food
Heterotroph
Eats to get food
Biotic
Living
Abiotic
Non living
Global warming
The earth is heating up and melting ice
Green house effect
The heat hits the ground and some stays the rest goes back into the sky
Ecological succession
is the observed process of change in the species structure of an ecological community over time.