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chapter21 section1-3
LifeScience
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a living thing | organisam |
| the things it needs to live grow,and reproduce | habitat |
| living parts of an organisam | biotic factor |
| a nonliving part of an organisam | abiotic factor |
| make their own FOOD | photosythesis |
| is a group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce. | species |
| All the members of one species in a particular area are referred too | population |
| live together in an area | cummunity |
| along with their nonliving surroundings, make up an | ecosystem |
| The study of how living things interact with each other and with their environment | ecology |
| is an approximation of a number, based on reasonable assumptions. | estimate |
| of a population is the number of births in a population in a certain amount of time. | birth rate |
| is the number of deaths in a population in a certain amount of time. | death rate |
| moving into a population. | immagration |
| leaving a population. | emigration |
| the number of individuals in a specific area. | population destiny |
| is an environmental factor that causes a population to decrease. | limiting factory |
| The largest population that an area can support | carrying capacity |
| natural selection | |
| adaptions | |
| niche | |
| competition | |
| predation | |
| predator | |
| prey | |
| symbiosis | |
| mutualism | |
| commensalism | |
| parasitis | |
| host | |
| parasitism |