Class Response Blog- Ecology

In science class we are learning about ecology. Here are a couple of important terms we are learning about:
environment- all of the living and nonliving things that an organism may interact with
ecology- the study of the relationships of living things with one another and of living things with their environment
ecosystem- a unit that consists of all the living and nonliving that interact with one another in a given area
community- the part of an ecosystem that is living
population- a group of organisms that are in the same species and that live in the same area
habitat- the place where an organism lives and gets the resources it needs to survive
producer- an organism that can make its own food by using a source of energy to turn raw materials into food
consumer- an organism that is not able to make its own food
decomposer- an an organism that breaks down dead organisms bodies into simpler substances
food chain- a representation of a series of events when food energy and matter are transferred from one organism to another
food web- a diagram that has many overlapping food cahins in it