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Science Vocabulary
Words for "Interactions of Living Things"
Question | Answer |
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The scientific study of the relationships that living organisms have with each other | Ecology |
Two or more species in a certain area | Community |
Group of living and non-living things | Ecosystem |
Living part of the world(Earth) | Biosphere |
The sequence of who eats who | Food Chain |
Depicts feeding connections in an ecological community | Food Web |
A depiction of the amount of energy in each trophic level of an ecosystem | Energy Pyramid |
The entirety of environmental factors that tend to suit and allow an animal or plant species to survive | Niche |
Maximum number of a certain species that can thrive in an area | Carrying Capacity |
Long-term interaction between two or more different species | Symbiosis |
A relationship between two or more species that benefits all of them | Mutualism |
Relationship between two species where one lives in, on, or with where neither get damaged | Commensalism |
The relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it | Parasitism |
An environmental factor that tends to limit population size | Limiting Factor |