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| Ecology | The study of the interactions of living organisms, and their enviorment |
| Habitat | The place were a population of a certain species lives |
| Comunity | All the many species living in a certain Habitat |
| Ecosystem | The living and non living parts of the enviorment |
| Diversity | The number of species living within an ecosystem |
| Sucession | The regular progression of species replacment |
| Primary sucession | Sucession on land |
| Secondary sucession | Sucession in areas that had previos growth |
| Primary Producer | The amount of organic material that the photosynthetic organisms of an ecosystem produce |
| Producers | Plants-Alge |
| Consumers | Organisms that feed of of the energy created by pruducers |
| Trophic level | Determined by the organisms source of energy |
| Herbivores | Organisms that only eat producers |
| Carnivores | Organisms that only eat flesh |
| Omnivores | Organisms that eat both producers, and flesh |
| Detritivores | A consumer such as fungi |
| Decomposers | These organisms recive energy from all of the trophic levels |
| Food chain | the path of energy through the trophic levels |
| Food web | A complicated interconected path of energy |
| Biomass | the dry weight of tissue and other organic matter |