JENNA BIRKHOLZ

The study of how organisms interact with each other and with their environment

Anything that can independently carry out life processes. One individual.

A group of organisms of the same species that live together in the same area at the same time.

All of the population of different species that live and interact in the same area.

A community of organisms and their non living environment.

a hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.

a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.

a person, company, or country that makes, grows, or supplies goods or commodities for sale.

A primary consumer is an organism that feeds on primary producers

Secondary consumers are organisms that eat primary consumers for energy.

A tertiary consumer is one trophic level of a food chain.

an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.

the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects.

is the consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished.

Invasive alien species are a major driver of biodiversity loss

the condition of being populated with excessively large numbers.

The organism that eats the prey is called the predator.

The organisms that gets eaten is the prey.

a symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits while the other is harmed.