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populations and comunities
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| organism | living things |
| habitat | An environment that provides the organism needs to live grow and reproduce |
| biotic factors | the living parts of a habitat |
| abiotic factors | the nonliving parts if an organisms |
| photosynthesis | plants and algae need water,along with sunlight and carbon dioxide to make their own food in process called photosynthesis |
| species | is a group of organisms that are physically similar |
| population. | all the members of one species in a particular area are referred to as a population. |
| community | all the different populations that live together in an area make up a community. |
| ecosystem | organisms and their nonliving surroundings make up an ecosystem |
| ecology | the study of how living things interact with each other and their enviroment |
| estimate | an approximate of a number based on reasonable assumptions |
| birth rate | the number of births in a population in certain amount of time |
| death rate | the number of deaths in a population in a certain amount of time |
| immigration | moving into a population |
| emmigration | leaving a population |
| population density | the number of indiviuals in an area a specific size |
| limiting factor | a factor that causes a population to decrease |
| carrying capacity | the largest population that an area can support |