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Chapter 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ecosysytem | An area in which living things interact with one another and with nonliving things. |
| Population | A group of organisms of the same species living together in an ecosystem. |
| Community | All of the populations living in an ecosystem. |
| Habitat | The part of an ecosystem in which an organism lives. |
| Niche | An organism's role in an ecosystem. |
| Diversity | A measure of the number and variety of of species in an ecosystem. |
| Producer | An organisms that makes its own food. |
| Food Chain | A sequence of connected producers and consumers. |
| Consumer | An organism that eats other organisms. |
| Food Web | A group of connected food chains in an ecosystem. |
| Energy pyramid | A diagram that shows energy is lost at each level in the food chain. |
| Competition | The struggle among organisms for limited resources. |
| Symbiosis | A close relationship b tween organisms of different species in which one or both of the organisms benefit. |