Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Ecosystems - Ch10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| organism | A living thing. |
| habitat | The place where an organism lives and where it obtains all the things it needs to survive. |
| biotic factor | A living part of an organism's habitat. |
| abiotic factor | A nonliving part of an organism's habitat |
| population | All the members of one species in a particular area. |
| community | All the different populations that live together in an area. |
| ecosystem | The community of organisms in an area, along with their nonliving environment. |
| biosphere | Includes all living things found from the deepest parts of the ocean to the upper atmosphere. |
| immigration | Moving into a population. |
| emigration | Leaving a population. |
| limiting factor | An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease. |
| carrying capacity | The largest population that an area can support. |
| producer | An organism that can make its own food. |
| consumer | An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other consumers. |
| herbivore | A consumer that eats only plants. |
| carnivore | A consumer that eats only animals. |
| omnivore | A consumer that eats both plants and animals. |
| scavenger | A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms. |
| decomposer | An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms. |
| food chain | A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. |
| food web | The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem. |
| energy pyramid | A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web. |
| adaptations | A behavior or physical characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment. |
| niche | The role of an organism in its habitat, or how it makes its living. |
| competition | The struggle between organisms to survive using the same limited resources. |
| predation | An interaction in which one organism kills another for food. |
| predator | The organism that does the killing in a predation interaction. |
| prey | An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism. |
| symbiosis | A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species. |
| mutualism | A relationship between two species in which both species benefit. |
| commensalism | A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed. |
| parasitism | A relationship in which one organism lives on or in a host and harms it. |
| parasite | Organism that benefits by living on or in a host. |
| host | Organism that a parasite lives in or on. |
Created by:
swimswam
Popular Biology sets