unit 4 vocablulary by https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c Made with magic en-us 2018-03-18 02:39:29 UTC 2025-11-25 19:34:55 UTC hello@padlet.com Ecosystem 12podujem https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243136832 : the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit]]> 2018-03-18 02:41:29 UTC https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243136832 Biome 12podujem https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243137026  a major ecological community type (such as tropical rain forest, grassland, or desert]]> 2018-03-18 02:44:35 UTC https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243137026 Abiotic Factors 12podujem https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243137138 : not biotic : abiological  
  • the abiotic environment
]]> 2018-03-18 02:46:31 UTC https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243137138 Biotic Factors 12podujem https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243137241 : of, relating to, or caused by living organisms  
  • biotic diversity
]]> 2018-03-18 02:48:19 UTC https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243137241 Habitat 12podujem https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243137302 1a : the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows b : the typical place of residence of a person or a group  
  • the arctic habitat of the Inuit
c : a housing for a controlled physical environment in which people can live under surrounding inhospitable conditions (as under the sea) 
2: the place where something is commonly found 
  • has its natural habitat in university, in government, or in industrial laboratories
  •  —B. B. Watson
]]> 2018-03-18 02:49:38 UTC https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243137302 Niche 12podujem https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243137407 1a : a recess in a wall especially for a statue b : something (such as a sheltered or private space) that resembles a recess in a wall 
2a : a place, employment, status, or activity for which a person or thing is best fitted  
  • finally found her niche
b : a habitat supplying the factors necessary for the existence of an organism or species c : the ecological role of an organism in a community especially in regard to food consumption d : a specialized market
]]> 2018-03-18 02:51:34 UTC https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243137407 Population 12podujem https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243137484 1a : the whole number of people or inhabitants in a country or region b : the total of individuals occupying an area or making up a whole c : the total of particles at a particular energy level  —used especially of atoms in a laser 
2: the act or process of populating
3a : a body of persons or individuals having a quality or characteristic in common b (1) : the organisms inhabiting a particular locality  (2) : a group of interbreeding organisms that represents the level of organization at which speciation begins 
4: a group of individual persons, objects, or items from which samples are taken for statistical measurement
]]> 2018-03-18 02:53:03 UTC https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243137484 Community 12podujem https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243137557 1: a unified body of individuals: such as a : the people with common interests living in a particular area;  broadly  : the area itself  
  • the problems of a large community
b : a group of people with a common characteristic or interest living together within a larger society  
  • a community of retired persons 
  • a monastic community
c : a body of persons of common and especially professional interests scattered through a larger society  
  • the academic community 
  • the scientific community
d : a body of persons or nations having a common history or common social, economic, and political interests  
  • the international community
e : a group linked by a common policy f : an interacting population of various kinds of individuals (such as species) in a common location g : state, commonwealth
2a : a social state or condition  
  • The school encourages a sense of community in its students.
b : joint ownership or participation  
  • community of goods
c : common character : likeness  
  • community of interests
d : social activity : fellowship
3: society at large  
  • the interests of the community
]]> 2018-03-18 02:54:20 UTC https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243137557 Biosphere 12podujem https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243137620 1: the part of the world in which life can exist 
2: living organisms together with their environment 



]]> 2018-03-18 02:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243137620 Trophic Level 12podujem https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243137664 : one of the hierarchical strata of a food web characterized by organisms which are the same number of steps removed from the primary producers]]> 2018-03-18 02:56:38 UTC https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243137664 Producers/Autotrophs 12podujem https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243137719 1: one that produces;  especially  : one that grows agricultural products or manufactures crude materials into articles of use 
2: a person who supervises or finances a work (such as a staged or recorded performance) for exhibition or dissemination to the public 
3: an autotrophic organism (such as a green plant) viewed as a source of biomass that can be consumed by other organisms — compare consumer
]]> 2018-03-18 02:57:42 UTC https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243137719 Consumers/Heterotrophs 12podujem https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243137807 : one that consumes: such as 
a : one that utilizes economic goods  
  • Many consumers make purchases on the Internet.
b : an organism requiring complex organic compounds for food which it obtains by preying on other organisms or by eating particles of organic matter — compare producer 3
]]> 2018-03-18 02:59:58 UTC https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243137807 Decomposers 12podujem https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243137875 : any of various organisms (such as many bacteria and fungi) that return constituents of organic substances to ecological cycles by feeding on and breaking down dead protoplasm — compare consumer, producer 4]]> 2018-03-18 03:01:05 UTC https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243137875 Symbiosis 12podujem https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243137970 1: the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism);  especially  : mutualism
2: a cooperative relationship (as between two persons or groups) 
  • the symbiosis … between the resident population and the immigrants
  •  —John Geipel
]]> 2018-03-18 03:02:45 UTC https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243137970 Mutualism 12podujem https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243138046 1: the doctrine or practice of mutual dependence as the condition of individual and social welfare 
2: mutually beneficial association between different kinds of organisms
]]> 2018-03-18 03:04:16 UTC https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243138046 Commensalism 12podujem https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243138125 : a relation between two kinds of organisms in which one obtains food or other benefits from the other without damaging or benefiting it]]> 2018-03-18 03:05:42 UTC https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243138125 Parasitism 12podujem https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243138183 1: the behavior of a parasite
2: an intimate association between organisms of two or more kinds;  especially  : one in which a parasite obtains benefits from a host which it usually injures 
3: parasitosis
]]> 2018-03-18 03:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243138183 Food Web 12podujem https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243138248 : the totality of interacting food chains in an ecological community]]> 2018-03-18 03:08:21 UTC https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243138248 Food Chain 12podujem https://padlet.com/12podujem/jzmcpyfb0d7c/wish/243138292 1: an arrangement of the organisms of an ecological community according to the order of predation in which each uses the next usually lower member as a food source 
2: a hierarchy based on power or importance  
  • at the top of the corporate food chain
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