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science- food web
7th grade mrs.Inabinet
Question | Answer |
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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 |