ECOLOGY

Any resource in an ecosystem that is not living

Resources in an ecosystem that are living

can produce its own food

consumes another organism to get food/nutrients

Series of steps in which organisms transfer energy in one direction by eating and being eaten

Many food Chains put together where the arrows shows the direction of energy

Can make their own food in an ecosystem (eaten by primary consumer)

Animals that eat plants

Organisms that consumes primary consumers (Omnivores)

Animals that eat secondary consumers (carnivores)

Anything that stops from the population from growing

The maximum population size of a living biological species that can be sustained by its environment

When an environment exceeds the carrying capacity leading to death of organisms that live in that area

The process of naturally reusing carbon atoms through cellular respiration which travels from the atmosphere into organisms in the earth and then back into the atmosphere before repeating

Organisms of different species that live in the same area but are not competitive with one another

A relationship between two organisms where both benefit each other

A relationship that helps one organism and neither will it hurt or harm one another

A relationship the benefits one organism and harms the other

Any species transported (intentionally or not) from its native habitat to an area where it did not exist

An introduced Species that has a negative impact on the populations of the native species in its new environment

A environment where an organism lives and can find food, habitat, and mates (w/o it there is no diversity)

The variety of life

Resulting from combining qualities of two organisms of different varieties, subspecies, species or genera through sexual reproduction

Only 10% of the entry available in one trophic level is transferred to the next higher level