Ecology Definitions Flashcards
Interdependence?
The way in which living organisms depend on each other to survive,grow and reproduce
Food chain?
A diagram that shows the transfer of energy between organisms.
Food web?
A diagram showing a set of linked food chains.
Producer?
Organism that makes its own food using photosynthesis.
Consumer?
Organisms that eat other organisms as food.
Herbivore?
An animal that eats plants and vegetation.
Carnivore?
When an animal eats another animal.
Predator?
An animal that eats other animals.
Prey?
An animal that is eaten by another animal.
Bioaccumulation?
The build up of toxic chemicals inside organisms in a food chain.
Ecosystem?
The name given to the interaction between plants,animals, and their habitat in a particular location.
Habitat?
The area in which an organism.
Community?
The collection of the different types of organism present in an ecosystem.
Population?
The number of plants or animals of the same type that live in the same area.
Niche?
A particular place or role that an organism has in an ecosystem.
