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enviormental
life science
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| abiotic factor | abiotic factors are non-living chemical and physical parts of the environment that affect living organisms and the functioning of ecosystems. |
| biodiversity | The number of different species in an area. |
| biotic factor | A living part of a organism's habitat. |
| carrying capacity | The largest population that an area can support. |
| commenalism | A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed. |
| communities | All the different populations living together in an area. |
| competition | the struggle between the organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resource. |
| ecosystems | the community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings. |
| habitat | an environment that provides things an organisms needs to, live, grow,and reproduce. |
| host | The organism that a parasite that lives in or on in a parasitism interaction. |
| mutalism | \A relationship in between two species in which both species benefit. |
| parasitism | A relationship in which one organism lives on or in a host and harms it. |
| parasite | the organism benefits by living on or in a host in a parasitism interaction. |
| populations | all the members of one species in a particular area. |
| predation | an interaction in which one organism kills another for food. |
| predator | the organism that does the killing in a predation interaction. |
| prey | an organism that is killed and eaten by another organism. |
| species | A group of organisms that are psychically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce. |
| symbiosis | A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species. |