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nadias ecol. cards
nadia's ecology flip cards
Question | Answer |
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carrying capacity | largest # of indiv. that an ecosystem can support over time |
commensalism | relationship one benifits other doesnt |
community | all of the population of all special living in an ecosystem |
consumer | eats other thinkg, can't make own food |
ecology | study of interactions that occur among organisms and their envoronments |
ecosystem | consists of all organisms living in an area |
habitat | place where organism lives |
limiting factor | anything that restricts # of indiv. living in a population. |
mutualism | relationship in which both specia benefit |
niche | organsim's role in the environment |
parasitism | relationship both species benefit |
population | made up of all organisms living in one area at the same time |
producer | makes own food |
symbiosis | close relationship btwn species |
predator | eats prey |
prey | gets eaten by predator |
competition | like... uhm, when two or more organisms seek the same resource at the same time and it limits population size |
chemosynthesis | production of energy rich molecules from chemicals |
food web | shows food relationships among organisms in community |
food pyramid | shows amount of energy available at each feeding leven in an ecosystem |
food chain | showing how matter and energy pass from one thing to another |