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Populations & Commun
Ecology, life science
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |