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Plants and Ecology

QuestionAnswer
Biosphere Anywhere on Earth that Supports Life
Carrying Capacity The highest population a certain area can support
Commensalism A relationship when one organism benifits and the other is unaffected
Consumer Consumes a producer and gains the producers energy
Ecology The study of living organisms interacting and their enviroments
Ecosystem A community and its environment
Community Several populations interacting
Habitat A place where an organism lives
Limiting Factor Anything that limits a population in a certain area
Mutualism A relationship where both organisms benefit
Niche An organism's role in the environment
Parasitism A relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is harmed
Population A group on the same species of an organism living in a certain area together.
Producer An organism that gains energy directly from the sun.
Symbiosis A relationship between two organisms
Predator A consumer that consumes other organisms
Prey An organism that is hunted and eaten by a consumer
Competition Where two organisms fight for a resource.
Chemosynthesis Gaining energy from chemicals directly
Food web A diagram showing all of the organisms in an area and the order they consume each other
Food pyramid Pretadors and the top, producers at the bottom, lower consumers in the middle area; the order gaining energy
Food chain Consists of a producer that gets consumed by a consumer and a top consumer that consumes the lesser consumer.
Organism A living creature
Monocot An organism that gets nutrients while developing from one source
Dicot An organism that gets nutrients while developing from two sources
Cotyledons A source of energy for developing plants
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