Question | Answer | |
organism | a living thing | |
habitat | An environment that provides the things the organism needs to live grow and reproduce | |
biotic factors | the living things in a habitat | |
abiotic factors | the nonliving things in a habitat | |
photosynthesis | the process where plants use water,carbon dioxide, and sun to make food | |
population | all of the members of one species in a certain area | |
community | all of the populations that live in a certain area | |
ecosystem | the community of organisms that live in a certain area along with thier abiotic factors | |
population | all of the members of one species in a paticular area | |
community | all of the different populations that live together | |
ecosystem | the community of organisms with abiotic factors in an area. | |
ecology | the study of living things and how they interact | |
estamate | an aproxamation of a numberbased on a reasonable guess | |
birth rate | the number of births in a population in a certain amount of time | |
death rate | the number of deaths in a population in a certain amount of time | |
immagration | when organisms join a new habitat | |
emigration | when organisms leave a habitat | |
population density | the amount od indaviduals in a certain sized area | |
limiting factors | an environvental factor that causes populations to decrease | |
carrying capacity | the most amount of populations that an environment can carry | |
natural selections | a characteistic that makes an organism more suited to its environment | |
adaptaitions | the behaviors and characteristics that make an organism live more succesfully in thier environment | |
niche | how an organism makes its living | |
competition | the struggle between organisms using the same limited factors | |
predation | when one organism kills another for its food | |
predator | the organism that does the killing | |
prey | the organism that gets killed | |
symbiosis | two related species that benefits at least one of them | |
mutralism | a relationship when both species benefit | |
commensalim | where one species helps and the other doesn't get harmed or helped | |
parasitism | Where one organism benefits while the other lives in or on it and is harming it | |
parasite | the organism that harms the other one | |
host | the organism that gets harmed and benefits | |
species | a group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce | |