Ecology Word Scramble
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biosphere | part of Earth that supports life |
ecosystem | all the living organisms that live in an area and the nonliving features of their environment |
ecology | study of the interactions that take place among organisms and their environment |
population | all the organisms that belong to the same species living in a community |
community | all the populations of different species that live in an ecosystem |
habitat | place where organisms live and that provides the types of shelter, moisture, food, and temperature for survival |
carrying capacity | largest number of individuals of a particular species that an ecosystem can hold over time |
limiting factors | anything that can restrict the size of a population, including living and non-living features of an ecosystem, such as preditors or drought |
population density | the number of organisms per square unit |
competition | when two or more organisms want the same thing and both do something to get it |
biotic potential | the capacity of a population of organisms to increase in numbers under optimum environmental changes |
exponential growth | developement at a rapid pace |
food chain | a type of relationship between animals that says what the animals eat |
preditor | what eats the pray |
prey | what gets eaten by the preditor |
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