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Ecology - Coggle Diagram
Ecology
KEY TERMINOLOGY - What do these words mean?
Habitat
The place where an organism lives
Population
All the organisms of one species living in a habitat
Community
The population of different species living in a habitat
Abiotic factor
Nonliving factors of the environment
Temperature
Light density
Moisture level
CO2 level
Oxygen level
Biotic factor
Living factors of the environment
New predators arriving
Competition
New pathogens
Availability of food
Ecosystem
The interaction of a community of living (biotic) organisms with the nonliving (abiotic) parts of their environment
Food webs
What do these terms mean?
Omnivore
An animal that eats meat and plants eg a human
Producer
This is a green plant or algae that makes its own food using sunlight eg grass
Consumer
An animal that eats things (can be primary, secondary, tertiary)
Herbivore
An animal that eats plants eg a cow
Carnivore
A animal that eats meat
What do the arrows in a food web show?
Energy transfer
Decomposer
An organisms which breaks other things up eg fungi
Predator
An animal that consumes other animals eg a lion
Prey
An animal that is eaten eg a sheep
Interdependence