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nadias ecol. cards
nadia's ecology flip cards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |