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ScienceVocab(May)
Study these for your science qiuiz on May 17th 2017 or U will get an F
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abiotic | The nonliving parts of an enviorment |
| Bacteria | Extremely small , single celled prokaryotic cells |
| Biotic | The living parts of an enviorment |
| Carrying Capacity | The largest population that given environment can support over a long period of time |
| Community | All populations of organisms that live in the same area |
| Consumers | An organism that eats other organisms |
| Ecological Role or Niche | An organism's way of life in an ecosystem |
| Ecosystem | A Community of organisms and their abiotic environment |
| Food Chain/Food Web | A diagram that shows the flow of energy through organisms in an ecosystem |
| Habitat | The place where an organism usually lives |
| Parasite | An organism that feeds on an organism of another species |
| Population | A group of organisms that feeds on an organism of another species |
| Predator | An organism that eats all or part of another organism |
| Prey | An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism |
| Producers | An organism that can make its own food |
| Decomposers | An organism that feeds by breaking down organic matter from dead organisms |
| Species extinction | When all organisms of a single species die |
| Sustain ability | The ability of an ecosystem or process to renew and provide resources for a population of organisms indefinitely |
| Symbosis | A relationship in which two different organisms live in close association with each other (Mutualism, Commensalism, and Parasitism) |