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Science Ecosystem
Science Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Birth Rate | The number of births in a population in a certain amount of time |
| Death Rate | The number of deaths in a population in a certain amount of time |
| Immigration | Moving into a population |
| Emigration | Leaving a population |
| Niche | The role of an organism in its habitat or how it makes its living |
| Symbiosis | A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species |
| Commensalism | a relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed |
| Limiting Factor | An environment factor that causes a population to decrease |
| Carrying Capacity | The largest population that an area can support |
| Natural Selection | A process by which characteristics that make an individual better suited to its environment become more common in a species |
| Adaptations | A behavior or physical characteristic that allows an organism to live successfully in its environment |
| Competition | The struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resource |
| Mutualism | A relationship between two species in which both species benefits |
| Parasitism | a relationship in which one organism lives on or in a host and harms it |