Unit A Chapter 4
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- Ecology
- study of the realtionship among living and non-living parts of an area
- Ecosystem
- all the living and non-living parts in an area
- Habitat
- the place where a species lives
- Community
- all the populations living in one area
- Niche
- the role of the species in an ecosystem
- Population
- all of the members of one species that live in the same area
- Photosynthesis
- the process by which plants use sunlight tomake sugar from water and carbo doxide
- Producer
- an organism that uses sunlight to make sugar from water and carbon dioxide
- Consumer
- an organism that consumes other organisms for food
- Scavenger
- an animal that feeds ont he bodeis of dead organisms
- Decomposer
- an organism that helps break down and decay dead organisms and the wastes of living organisms
- Energy pyramid
- a diagram that campares the amount of eneregy available at each position or level of the feeding order
- Foodweb
- a combination of all the food chains in a community