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Ecology Vocab 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| BIOLOGY | Bio - life ology - study of A study of living things |
| ORGANISM | Scientific word for living things |
| HABITAT | An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce. |
| BIOTIC FACTORS | Are the parts of a habitat that are living or once living and interact with an organism. |
| ABIOTIC FACTORS | Are the non-living parts of an organism's habitat. Water |
| SPECIES | A SPECIES is a group of organism's that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce. Praire dogs |
| POPULATION | All the members of one SPECIES living in a particular area. 1000 praire dogs |
| COMMUNITY | All the different POPULATIONS that live together in an area. Praire dogs, snakes, eagles |
| ECOSYSTEM | The COMMUNITY of ORGANISM's that live in a particular area, along with their non-living environment. PRAIRE |
| ECOLOGY | The study of how ORGANISM'S interact with each other and with their environment. |
| BIRTH RATE | The number of births per 1000 individuals for a given time period. 32 eggs a year by a female alligator |
| DEATH RATE | The number of deaths per 1000 individuals for a given time period. 8 deaths of alligators a year. |
| IMMIGRATION | Moving into a population. An antelope moving in with a new herd. |
| EMMIGRATION | Leaving a population. Antelope moving from the herd to find better food and becoming permanently separated from the herd. |
| POPULATION DENSITY | The number of individuals in an area of a specific size. POPULATION DENSITY = # OF INDIVIDUALS / UNIT AREA |
| LIMITING FACTOR | An environmental factor that causes a population to stop growing or decrease in size. SCARCE FOOD |
| CARRYING CAPACITY | The largest population that an area can support. If there is not enough food and water in a habitat the # of giraffes would be ten and 3 more would kill them. |