https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye en-us 2018-02-05 16:39:12 UTC 2024-05-17 00:23:04 UTC hello@padlet.com 304792 https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228209461 physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms.]]> 2018-02-05 16:40:26 UTC https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228209461 304792 https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228210270 the action or process of adapting or being adapted.]]> 2018-02-05 16:41:52 UTC https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228210270 304792 https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228211387 relating to or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations.]]> 2018-02-05 16:43:33 UTC https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228211387 304792 https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228213394 an animal that feeds on flesh.]]> 2018-02-05 16:46:37 UTC https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228213394 304792 https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228214405 a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.]]> 2018-02-05 16:48:13 UTC https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228214405 304792 https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228215276 Competition is an interaction between organisms or species in which both the organisms or species are harmed.]]> 2018-02-05 16:49:30 UTC https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228215276 304792 https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228217046 Consumers are organisms of an ecological food chain that receive energy by consuming other organisms]]> 2018-02-05 16:51:51 UTC https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228217046 304792 https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228217860 Mortality rate, or death rate, is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time.]]> 2018-02-05 16:52:56 UTC https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228217860 304792 https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228219013 Decomposers are organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms, and in doing so, they carry out the natural process of decomposition.]]> 2018-02-05 16:54:27 UTC https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228219013 304792 https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228219865 Ecosystem ecology is the integrated study of living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) components of ecosystems and their interactions within an ecosystem framework.]]> 2018-02-05 16:55:39 UTC https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228219865 304792 https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228220857 the scientific study of interactions among organisms and their environment. It is an interdisciplinary field that straddles biology, geography, and Earth science.]]> 2018-02-05 16:57:09 UTC https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228220857 304792 https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228222733 Ecological extinction is defined as "the reduction of a species to such low abundance that, although it is still present in the community, it no longer interacts significantly with other species".]]> 2018-02-05 16:59:51 UTC https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228222733 304792 https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228223971 A habitat is an ecological or environmental area that is inhabited by a particular species of animal, plant, or other type of organism. ]]> 2018-02-05 17:01:38 UTC https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228223971 304792 https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228224650 Herbivory usually refers to animals eating plants; fungi, bacteria and protists that feed on living plants are usually termed plant pathogens (plant diseases), and microbes that feed on dead plants are saprotrophs. Flowering plants that obtain nutrition from other living plants are usually termed parasitic plants.]]> 2018-02-05 17:02:45 UTC https://padlet.com/304792/a6fgm6cqttye/wish/228224650