https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4 Made with panache en-us 2018-02-12 16:55:52 UTC 2023-05-20 18:42:53 UTC hello@padlet.com 3049101 https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4/wish/230696176 In ecology, a niche is the fit of a species living under specific environmental conditions]]> 2018-02-12 16:56:56 UTC https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4/wish/230696176 3049101 https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4/wish/230697426 an animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin.]]> 2018-02-12 16:58:47 UTC https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4/wish/230697426 3049101 https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4/wish/230698085 Population ecology is a subfield of ecology that deals with the dynamics of species populations and how these populations interact with the environment. It is the study of how the population sizes of species change over time and space ]]> 2018-02-12 16:59:49 UTC https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4/wish/230698085 3049101 https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4/wish/230698852 In an ecosystem, predation is a biological interaction where a predator (an organism that is hunting) feeds on its prey (the organism that is attacked).]]> 2018-02-12 17:01:06 UTC https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4/wish/230698852 3049101 https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4/wish/230699609 In an ecosystem, predation is a biological interaction where a predator (an organism that is hunting) feeds on its prey (the organism that is attacked). ]]> 2018-02-12 17:02:26 UTC https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4/wish/230699609 3049101 https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4/wish/230700574 Primary consumers are herbivores, feeding on plants. Secondary consumers, on the other hand, are carnivores, and prey on other animals. Omnivores, who feed on both plants and animals, can also be considered a secondary consumer.]]> 2018-02-12 17:04:03 UTC https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4/wish/230700574 3049101 https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4/wish/230701284 Primary succession is one of two types of biological and ecological succession of plant life, occurring in an environment in which new substrate devoid of vegetation and other organisms usually lacking soil, such as a lava flow or area left from retreated glacier, is deposited.]]> 2018-02-12 17:05:13 UTC https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4/wish/230701284 3049101 https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4/wish/230701941 Producers are organisms that can make their own energy through biochemical processes, which are just processes in living things that involve chemical reactions. Also called autotrophs, the usual wayproducers make energy is through photosynthesis.

]]> 2018-02-12 17:06:20 UTC https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4/wish/230701941 3049101 https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4/wish/230702908 A scavenger is an organism that mostly consumes decaying biomass, such as meat or rotting plant material. Many scavengers are a type of carnivore, which is an organism that eats meat.]]> 2018-02-12 17:08:07 UTC https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4/wish/230702908 3049101 https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4/wish/230703699 Within an ecological food chain, consumers are categorized into three groups: primary consumers,secondary consumers, and the tertiary consumers. Primary consumers are usually herbivores, feeding on plants and fungus. Secondary consumers, on the other hand, are mainly carnivores, and prey on other animals.]]> 2018-02-12 17:09:22 UTC https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4/wish/230703699 3049101 https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4/wish/230704419 As opposed to the first, primary succession,secondary succession is a process started by an event (e.g. forest fire, harvesting, hurricane, etc.) that reduces an already established ecosystem (e.g. a forest or a wheat field) to a smaller population of species, and as such secondary succession occurs on preexisting ...]]> 2018-02-12 17:10:34 UTC https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4/wish/230704419 3049101 https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4/wish/230705234 tertiary consumer. a carnivore at the topmost level in a food chain that feeds on other carnivores; an animal that feeds only on secondary consumers.]]> 2018-02-12 17:12:01 UTC https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4/wish/230705234 3049101 https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4/wish/230705918 Natality in population ecology is the scientific term for birth rate. Along with mortality rate, natality rate is used to calculate the dynamics of a population. They are the key factors in determining whether a population is increasing, decreasing or staying the same in size.]]> 2018-02-12 17:13:02 UTC https://padlet.com/3049101/wf7iy3ya6bk4/wish/230705918