Ecology - the study of interactions between organisms and their environment., Organism - any living thing, Producers - organisms that use energy in sunlight to make their own food, Consumer - organisms that can not make their own energy, Primary consumer - consumers that eat producers to get energy, Secondary consumer - a consumer that eats another consumer for energy, Herbivore - only eats plants, Carnivore - only eats animals , Omnivore - eats plants and animals , Decomposer - consume and breaks down dead plants and animals, Stimulus - anything in the environment that causes a response , Adaptation - when a plant or animal changes in order to survive and function better in its environment, Dormancy - a period of inactivity in which a plant or seed does not grow in order to survive, Tropism - plant growth in response to a stimulus. Example: growth in response to light; growth in response to heat. , Food chain - a diagram that shows how energy flows from one organism to another, Individual - any living thing or organism, Population - a group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area, Community - populations of different species that live in the same area, Ecosystem - the relationship between the living and nonliving parts of an environment, Biome - large geographical area with similar climates and ecosystems, Limiting factor - any biotic or abiotic factor that causes a population to decrease, Biotic factor - any living parts of the environment, Abiotic factor - any non-living parts of the environment, Tolerance - the ability of an organism to survive changes in biotic and abiotic environment factors, Food Web - a diagram that shows the feeding relationship between organisms in an ecosystem. , Deciduous forest - the only biome with four seasons,

Ecosystems & Biomes

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