BIo vocab
Published on Nov 19, 2015
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biosphere
- The regions of the earth covered by living organisms
- The biosphere we know today has been evolving for 3.5 billion years
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ecology
- The branch of biology that deals with relations with organisms and their surroundings
- The term "Ecology" come from the Greek word root oikos, which means. (household or living place)
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habitat
- The natural home of an animal, plant, or organism
- Animals live in special habitats were all there needs are met, such as food and shelter
organism
- An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form
- Every single organism we see today has come from a few original organisms billions of years ago
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symbiosis
- Interaction between to different living organisms
- Especially with mammals, symbiosis is crucial to a healthy enjoyable life
- A mutual relationship between organisms
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autotroph
- An organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances for the use of itself and others
- It is very important that we don't kill all the autotrophs because that's how we get oxygen to breath
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carnivore
- Carnivores are animals that only consume other animals
- Carnivores are normally near the top of the food chain
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ecosystem
- A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
- Animals tend to move during seasons to keep their ecosystem optimal
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herbivore
- An animal that only eats plants
- herbivores tend to stay near the bottom of the food chain because their the ones being eaten
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omnivore
- An omnivore is an animal that eat both other animals and plants
- Many of the teeth of dinosaurs that were thought to be carnivores like the T-rex have been found with remains of plants in them
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