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Ecology Unit 1
Question | Answer |
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Organism | A living thing. |
Habitat | an environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live,grow, and reproduce. |
Biotic Factor | A living or once living part of an organism's habitat. |
Abiotic Factor | a nonliving part of an organism's habitat. |
Species | a group of similar organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce. |
Population | All the members of one species living in the same area. |
Community | all different populations that live together in a particular area. |
Ecosystem | The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving environment. |
Ecology | The study of how organisms interact with each other and their environment. |
Birth Rate | the total number of live births per 1,000 of a population in a year. |
Death Rate | the number of deaths per 1,000 individuals for the given time period |
Immigration | Moving into a population |
Emigration | leaving a population |
Population Destiny | the number of individuals in an area of a specific size |
Limiting Factor | an environmental factor that causes a population to stop growing or decrease size. |
Carrying Capacity | the largest population that an area can support |
Natural Selection | A characteristic that makes an individual better suited to a specific environment |
Adaption | The behaviors and physical characteristics that allow organisms to live successfully in their environments |
Niche | The role of an organism in a habitat |
Competition | The struggle between resources |
Predation | An interaction in which one organism kills another for food or nutrients |
Predator | The organism that does the killing |
Prey | The organism that is killed |
Symbiosis | Any relationship in which two species live closely together and at least one of the species benefits |
Mutualism | A relationship in which both species benefit |
Commensalism | A relationship in which one species benefits and other species is neither helped nor harmed |
Parasitism | A relationship that involves one organism living with, on, or inside another organism and harming it |
Parasite | An organism that benefits |
Host | The Organism that it lives on or in |
Succession | Series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time |
Primary Succession | Series of changes that occurs in an area where no soil or organisms exist |
Pioneer Species | The first species to populate an area |
Secondary Succession | The series of changes that occurs in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed |