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Pop & Resources
Use to study Amplify's Life Science Populations and Resources Unit!
Term | Definition |
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change` | when something becomes different over time |
competition | when two or more populations want the same resource, (food, shelter, mates) |
consumer population | a population that eats organisms from another population (predator) |
ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things interacting in a particular area |
energy | the ability to make things move or change |
energy storage molecule | a molecule that organisms can use to release the energy needed to survive |
food web | a model that shows what eats what in an ecosystem |
glucose | a molecule that organisms can use to release energy |
indirect effect | the result of one cause leading to an effect that causes one or more other effects |
organisms | living things such as plants, animals, and bacteria |
population | a group of the same type of organism living in the same area |
reproduction | the process of creating offspring (babies) |
resource population | a population that is eaten by organisms from another population (prey) |
sample | a small part that is meant to show what the whole is like |
stability | when something stays mostly the same over time |
biotic | any living thing |
abiotic | and non-living thing |