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biology words week 3
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Question | Answer |
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trophic level | organism that represents a feecing step in the movement of enrgy and materials through an ecosystem |
tolerance | the ability of an organism to withstand fluctuations in biotic and abiotic enviromnetal factors |
symbiosis | permanent close association between two or more organisms of different species |
succession | orderly, natural changes, and species replacements that take place in communities of an ecosystem over time |
secondary succcession | sequence of changes that take place after a community is disrupted by natural disasters or human actions |
primary succession | colonization of barren land by pioneer organisms |
population | group of organisms all of the same species which interbreed and live in the same place at the same time |
parasitism | symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits at the expense of another usually another species |
niche | role or position a species has in its environment |
mutualism | a symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit |
limiting factor | any biotic or abiotic factor that restricts the existence, numbers, reproduction or distribution of organisms |
heterotroph | organisms that cannot make their own food and must feed on other organisms for energy and nutrients |
habitat | place wher an organism lives out its life |
food web | model that shows all the possible feeding relationships at each triphic level in a community |
food chain | simple model that shows how matter and energy move through an ecosystem |
decomposer | organism such as fungi and bacteria that break down and absorb nutrients from dead orgainsms |
commensalims | sybiotic relationship in which one species benefits and the other species in neither harmed nor benefited |
climax community | a stable mature community that undergoes little or no change in species over time |
biotic factor | all the living organisms that inhabit an environment |
biosphere | portion of earth that supports life, exteds from high in the atmosphere to the bottom of the oceans |
biomass | that total mass or weight of al liveing matter in a given area |
biological community | a community made up of interaction populations in a cetain area at a certain time |
autotroph | organims that use energy from the sun or energy stored in chemical compounds to manafacture their own nutrients |
abiotic factor | nonliving |