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bio 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Autotroph | Organism that can make nutrients from lights or other inorganic things |
| Primary Producer | Organism that produces energy from sunlight |
| Heterotroph | Organism that uses organic substances |
| Consumer | Organism that eats something |
| Habitat | home of a living organism |
| Niche | When an organism fits into the environment |
| Resource | Supply of something |
| Predation | Preying on another organism |
| Herbivory | An organism that eats plants |
| Symbiosis | meeting of organisms in the same habitat |
| Mutualism | Relationship between 2 organisms |
| Parasitism | non mutual relationship that is shared by 2 organisms |
| commensalism | When one organism befits from another |
| Density(Population) | a group of organisms |
| Distribution | variation of specis in a area |
| Age Structure | How the population is distributed |
| Immigration | to move from a native region |
| Emigration | to leave ones place of birth |
| Exponential Growth | when a population grows rapidly |
| Logistic Growth | when the growth decreases when it reaches the carrying capacity |
| Carrying Capacity | the number of organisms that can live in one area |
| Limiting Factors | are factors that control the growth of a population |
| Density-dependent limiting | when a factor is dependent on a population |
| factor | a result or outcome |
| Density-Independent limiting | when a factor is not affected by population |
| Competition | the activity of competing |
| Biodiversity | varity in life |
| Habitat fragmentation | when a habitat is divided into smaller habitats |
| Stability | the state of being stable |
| Ecological Succession | when an ecosystem changes over time |
| Primary Succession | one type of Succession |
| Pioneer Species | first species to repopulate a area |
| Secondary Succession | changes that happen after a disaster has hit the habitat |
| Agriculture | farming |
| Monoculture | cultivation of one crop |
| Renewable Resource | a resource that can replenish after it has been used |
| Nonrenewable Resource | a resource that cannot be reused |
| Sustainable Resource | a resource that can be kept at a certain level |
| Sustainability | is to continue a certain way of natural behavior |
| Dessertification | when land becomes desert |
| Deforestation | the removal of the forest |
| Biological Magnification | when other types of food get in the food chain |
| Acid Rain | rain made in the clouds because of pollution |
| Greenhouse Gasses | a gas that absorbs radiation |
| ecological disturbance | temporary change in the environment |
| ecological footprint | impact of a organism in a habitat |
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