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Living Things and The Environment
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Population | Group of organisms of one spicies living in the same space |
| Ecosystem | Populations in a community and the abiotic factors with which they interact |
| Abiotic Factors | Nonliving parts of the environment |
| Biome | Several interaction population that inhabit a common environment |
| Spescies | Group of organism that can mate and produce fertile offsprings |
| Organisms | Any living thing |
| Community | Regional or global land areas characterized by the plants, animals, and climate in the area |
| Ecology | Scientific study of the interaction between organisms and their environment |
| Biosphere | Life supporting regions of Earth |
| Biotic Factor | All living things of the environment |
| Limiting factor | conditions in the environment that puts limits on the size of a population. |
| Carrying capacity | largest population size that can be supported by the available resources of an area |
| Range | area where a type of animal or plant population is found |
| Natural Selection | Survival and reproduction of an individual |
| Adaptation | A trait with a current funtional role in the life of an organism |
| Niche | An organism role |
| Competition | rival, haters |
| Predation | Act of plondering |
| Predator | Organism that exist by killing and eating other organism |
| Prey | An animal that is hunted |
| Symbiosis | two organisms living together |
| Mutualism | Two organism that benifit each other |
| Commensalism | One organism benefit, the other does not care |
| Parasitetism | one benefits, the other is hurt |
| Parasite | An organism that lives off of an another organism |
| Host | The orgasim hurt by the parasite |
| Succesion | is the process in sequence |
| Primary Succesion | ocurring in an environment without vegetation |
| Secondary Succesion | A process that started by an event that reduses an already established ecosystem |
| Pioneer species . | A hardy species which are the first to colonize |