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    This document defines 40 important ecology vocabulary words that are essential to understanding ecosystems. It includes definitions for key terms like abiotic and biotic factors, producers and consumers, food chains and webs, limiting factors, symbiotic relationships like mutualism and parasitism, as well as ecological processes like photosynthesis, respiration, primary and secondary succession. Understanding these fundamental ecology concepts is necessary to study how living things interact with each other and their environment.

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    This document defines 40 important ecology vocabulary words that are essential to understanding ecosystems. It includes definitions for key terms like abiotic and biotic factors, producers and consumers, food chains and webs, limiting factors, symbiotic relationships like mutualism and parasitism, as well as ecological processes like photosynthesis, respiration, primary and secondary succession. Understanding these fundamental ecology concepts is necessary to study how living things interact with each other and their environment.

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    Ecology Vocabulary Words

    1. Abiotic Factor- A non-living part of an ecosystem. Ex: water, sunlight, climate


    2. Biosphere - The part of the earth, including air, land, surface rocks, and water, within which
    life occurs
    3. Biotic Factor- A living part of an ecosystem. Ex: plants, animals, insects
    4. Carnivore - An animal that eats only other animals
    5. Carrying Capacity- The largest population that an area can support
    6. Pioneer Species- the first species to populate an area.
    7. Commensalism- A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is
    unaffected
    8. Community - All the different populations that live together in an area
    9. Competition - Organisms compete for the limited number of biotic and abiotic factors
    10. Consumer - An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms. Ex:
    herbivores, carnivores, scavengers
    11. Decomposer - Organisms that return nutrients to the soil and break down dead organisms
    Natures recyclers
    12. Ecology- The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment
    13. Ecosystem - All the living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) things that interact in an area
    14. Immigration- Moving into a population.
    15. Energy Pyramid - A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding
    level to another in a food web
    16. Exponential Growth- If a population has a constant birth rate through time and is never
    limited by food or disease. The birth rate alone controls how fast/slow the population grows.
    17. Food Chain - series of events in which one organism eats another
    18. Food Web- The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem. A model of feeding
    relationships
    19. Habitat - The environment in which an organism lives.
    20. Herbivore - An animal that eats only plants. Organism that obtains energy ONLY from
    producers

    21. Host - An organism that provides a source of energy or a suitable environment for a virus or
    for another organism to live
    22. Limiting Factor - Anything that restricts the number of individuals living in a population
    23. Mutualism - A symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit
    24. Niche - An organisms particular role in an ecosystem, or how it makes its living (what it
    eats, when it eats, etc.)
    25. Primary Succession The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or
    organisms exist.
    26. Omnivore - An animal that eats both plants and animals
    27. Parasite - An organism that lives on or in a host and causes harm to the host
    28. Parasitism - A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits while the other is
    harmed
    29. Population - Organisms of one species living together in the same place at the same time
    30. Emigration Leaving a population.
    31. Predation - An interaction in which one organism hunts and kills another animal for food
    32. Predator - A carnivore that hunts and kills other animals for food and has adaptations that
    help it capture the animals it preys upon
    33. Prey - An animal that the predator feeds upon
    34. Producer- Organisms that use sunlight to make food
    35. Species - A group of similar organisms whose members can mate with one another and
    produce fertile offspring
    36. Symbiosis - A close relationship between two organisms in which at least one of the
    organisms benefits
    37. Transpiration - The process by which water is lost through a plants leaves
    38. Photosynthesis The process in which light energy becomes chemical energy using carbon
    dioxide and water.
    39. Respiration A process that uses oxygen in organisms to break down simple food
    molecules to produce energy.
    40. Secondary Succession - The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem
    has been disturbed, but where soil and organisms still exist.

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