Abiotic Factors: All the non-living things that affect living thing in the ecosystem.

Examples: Sun, temperature, soil

Adaptation: Something an organism has or does to help it survive.

Analyze: to study data to look for patterns and relationships

Anthropologist: Some one who studies the human beings and their ancestors.

Behaviors: How something's acts.

Biotic Factors: All the living things that affect living things in the ecosystem.

Examples: Decomposer, Plants, animals, fungi, people

Brachiating: Swinging from branch to branch, a primate behavior.

Carnivore: An animal that eats other animals, or meat.

Categories: Putting objects or ideas into groups.

Community: All of the organisms that live in the same place.

Consumer: A living thing that eats another living thing.

Example: A deer is a consumer because it eats grass.

Criteria: Something's that MUST be held to when designing.

Constraints: Things that limit what you can do when designing.

Data: Observations, usually numbers, that are collected during an experiment.

Decomposer: An organism that gets its energy from dead organism

Enclosure: A human made object that keeps an object in.

Ecology: The study the relationship of organisms in their surroundings.

Ecosystem: The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings.

Examples: prairie, forest, lake, stream, pond

Energy Pyramid: A way to show how energy is lost through the different levels of a food web.

Environment: Surroundings

Ectotherm: An animal that gets it's warmth from the surroundings, a cold-blooded animal. Example: Fish, Reptiles, and amphibians.

Endotherm: An animal that gets it's warmth from itself, a warm-blooded animal. Example: Birds and mammals.

Ethologist: a scientist that studies animal behavior.

Ethogram: a chart that shows animal behavior.

Forage/Foraging: To look for food, usually plants.

Food Chain: A model that shows how energy moves through an ecosystem from the producer to the consumers.

Food Web: A model that shows how food chains overlap in an ecosystem.

Grooming: A primate behavior where

Habitat: A place where a living thing lives

Herbivore: A animal that eats only plants.

Homeostasis: Balance in an organism's body.

Instinct: A behavior that an organism is born with, not learned.

Knuckle walking: A way some primate move by walking on their knuckles

Learned: A behavior that an organism is not born with.

Limiting Factors: Things in the environment that keep the size of a population down.

Morphology: The study of the way an animal looks.

Niche: organisms role or job, in its habitat.

Omnivore: An animal that eats both plants and animals.

Population: All the members of one species in a particular area.

Predator: An animal that eats another animal

Prey: An animal that is eaten by another animal

Primate: A group of animals that have hands for grabbing objects and has well devloped brains

Primary Consumer (Herbivore): Animal that eats a plant.

Example: A caterpillar is a primary consumer because it eats plant leaves.

Producer: Any organism that is able to make its own food from sunlight

Example: Plants make their own food from sunlight so they are called producers

Roost: A large gathering of animals in the same place done to protect the group. Example: Birds in a tree

Secondary Consumer (Carnivore): An animal that eats a Primary consumer, eats another animal

Tertiary Consumer: An animal that eats a secondary consumer

Trend: A pattern found in numbers.

Valid: A conclusion that has evidence to back it up.