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Ecology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abiotic | are those non |
| Biotic | all the living factors that impact an organism ex. Disease, parasitism, predation |
| Biome | a division based on climate, plants and animals; an environment that has a characteristic type of climax community. |
| Freshwater biome | all of the lake, pond, stream, & river communities on Earth |
| Carrying Capacity | is the maximum number of organisms the resources of an ecosystem can support. |
| Climax community | a stable community that is in final stage of succession |
| Commensalism | a form of symbiosis in which one organism benefits and the other is not harmed |
| Community | the living part of an ecosystem composed of many species |
| Competition | the type of interaction among organisms; the struggle to obtain needed resources of food, water, shelter, |
| Consumer | an organism that CANNOT make its own food |
| Decomposer | an organism that breaks down the bodies of dead organisms into simpler substances ex. Bacteria & fungi |
| Dispersal | the movement of living things from one place to another |
| Ecosystem | a unit consisting of all the living and nonliving things in a given area that interact with one another |
| Endangered | in danger of becoming extinct |
| Environment | all the living and nonliving things with which an organism may interact |
| Food Web | a diagram that show many overlapping food chains |
| Habitat | the place in which an organism lives and obtains the resources it needs to survive |
| Host | an organism that provides a home to another organism |
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Saba Aleem
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