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Chapter 2 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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carrying capacity | the largest healthy population that an environment can support at any time |
limiting factor | a resource that is so scarce that it limits the size of a population |
competition | when two or more individuals or populations try to use the same resource, such as food, water, shelter, space, or light |
prey | an organism that is killed and eten by another organism |
predator | an organism that eats all or part of another organism |
herbivore | an organism that eats only plants |
carnivore | an organism that eats only animals |
omnivore | an organism that eats both plants and animals |
food chain | the pathway of energy transfer through various stages as a result of the feeding patterns of organisms |
food web | a diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem |
energy pyramid | a triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem's loss of energy, which results as energy passes throughan ecosystem's food chain |