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Chapter 1
Populations and Communities
| 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 part of a habitat |
| Abiotic factors | are the nonliving parts of an organism's habitat water,sunlight,oxygen,temperature ,soil |
| Photosynthesis | Plants and algae need water,along with sunlight and carbon dioxide |
| Species | is a group of organisms that are physically similar |
| 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 that live in a particular area,along with their surroundings. |
| Ecology | the study of how living things interact with each other and with their environment |