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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ecology | the study of the interaction between living things/organisms and their enviornment |
| biotic | ALL living organisms in an environment |
| abiotic | all the NONLIVING organisms in an enviornment |
| organism | a single living organism |
| populations | a group of individual organisms/species |
| communities | when there is MULTIPLE populations/species in an area |
| ecosystem | a community of living and non living things in and given enviornment |
| biosphere | ALL the parts of the earth where life can live (in the ocean, on land, and in the soil) |
| limiting factors | a scarce resourse thats limits the size of the populations |
| carrying capasity | the largest populations that an enviornment can carry any time |
| prey | an organism that is killed by another organism |
| predator | an organism that killed another organism |
| symbiosis | two biotic organisms interacting together and one gets a bonus |
| mutualism | relationship betwwen 2 species where both species benefits |
| commensaliam | relationship between 2 species (one benefits and one is nor helped nor harmed) |
| parasitism | one species is helped other species is harmed |
| coevolution | two species changing together over long periods of time |
| habitat | food shelter water |
| niche | organisms role in an ecosystem |
| competition | struggle/fight between organisms or populations to survive in an habitat with limited resources |
| adaptations | some type of advantage that allows an organism to live more successfully in their enviornment |