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Ecosystem - definitions
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How do we call the study of how organisms interact with each other and their environment?
Ecology
The organism that is hunted and eaten by another organism.
Prey
An interaction between organisms or species in which both the organisms or species are harmed. Limited supply of at least one resource (such as food, water, and territory) used by both can be a factor.
competition
cooperation
food chain
symbiote
Factors that are the living components of an ecosystem. They are sorted into three groups: producers or autotrophs, consumers or heterotrophs, and decomposers or detritivores.
Community
Biotic Factor
scavengers
Interdependence
Organisms that eat producers or other organisims to obtain energy.
parasites
predators
consumers
scavengers
Meat eaters
Carnivore
It consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem
Food web