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MiaBella
Term | Definition |
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Mutualism | Organisms that benefit from one another |
population | more than one of the same species |
symbiosis | two different organisms that live in close affection with one another |
community | all of the populations of species that live in the same habitat and interact with each other |
parasitism | one benefits other is harmed |
prey | an organism that is killed or eaten by another organism |
predator | an organism that kills or eats another organism |
commensalism | one organism benefits and one doesn't get affected |
coevolution | the evolution of two species that is due to mutual influence |
biotic | living factors |
abotic | nonliving factors |
ecosystem | a community of organisms and their abiotic enviorenment |
biosphere | the world |
herbivore | eats only plants |
carnivore | eats only meat |
omnivore | eats both plants and animals |
food chain | a pathway of energy transfer through various stages as a result of the feeding patterns of a series of organisms |
food web | a diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem |
energy pyramid | a triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem's loss of energy, which results as energy passes through the ecosystem's food chain |