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science- food web
7th grade mrs.Inabinet
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ecology | A branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments. |
| Biotic | Of, relating to, or caused by living organisms. |
| abiotic | Not biotic |
| population | The organisms inhabiting a particular location |
| community | an interacting population of various kinds of individuals in a common location |
| ecosystem | The complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit |
| biosphere | The part of the world in which life can exist |
| food chain | An arrangement of the organisms of an ecological community according to the order of predation in which each uses the next usually lower member as a food source |
| food web | Interacting food chains |
| energy pyramid | |
| niche | A habitat supplying the factors necessary for the existence of an organism or species |
| carrying capacity | The maximum population that an area will support without undergoing deterioration |
| symbiosis | The living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms |
| mutualism | |
| commensalism | |
| parasitism | |
| limiting factor |