In science, we have been learning all about ECOLOGY lately. While we we're learning this subject our teacher likes to give us some vocabulary to help us remember. Such as the words autotroph and consumer. The only difference between the two is that an autotroph is an organism that makes it's on food and a consumer eats other organisms to get energy. Another important word is niche, this is important because it is the role of an organism in it's society. An example of this would be if you are a sister, brother, student, or any under that catagory. Another one that we spent a lot of time on was symbiosis, this is a relationship between two organisms in which one organism lives near, or inside another and effects the other one by either hurting or helping it. Like when a bird lives on top of a tree, they two living organisms represent a perfect example of symbiosis. Two other words you would need to remember are food chain and food web. A food chain is when food energy is tranferred from on species to another in a representation of series of events. On the other hand a food web is when various food chains over-lap and are represented in a diagram. As I was researching ECOLOGY, I found out that wikipedia words the definition as: "The scientific study of the distribution and abundance of life and the interactions between organisms and their natural environment". It also said that:"Eugenius Warming founded ecology as a scientific discipline. I cant wait to learn more about ecology.
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