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Populations & Commun
Ecology, life science
Term | Definition |
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immigration | moving into a population |
emigration | leaving a population |
limiting factor | an environmental factor that causes a population to decrease |
carrying capacity | the largest population that an area can support |
biotic factor | living parts of a habitat |
abiotic factor | nonliving parts of a habitat |
population | all the members of one species in a particular area |
community | all the different populations that live together in an area |
ecosystem | the community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings |
ecology | the study of how living things interact with each other and with their environment |