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Science
Question | Answer |
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Biodiversity | The variety of species found in earth's land and water ecosystem |
Food web | A series of organisms connected by predator-prey and consumer-producer relationships |
Abiotic factors | Non-living chemical and physical parts of an environment that impact the function of an ecosystem |
Invasive species | A species that is non-native or allien to an ecosystem. Causes harm to an environment, economy, and/or humans |
Decomposer | An organism such as bacteria or fungi that break down dead material and recycle nutrients back into the soil |
Consumer | An animal that gets energy by eating plants and other animals for food |
Producer | An organism that is capable of producing food through the process of photosynthesis |
Food chain | The sequentail transfer of food energy from one species to another |
Matter | All living and non-living things are made of matter. Anything that takes up mass and space |
Parasitism | A symbiotic relationship where one species benefits and the other is harmed |
Commensalism | A symbiotic relationship where one species benefits and the other in not impacted at all |
Mutualism | A symbiotic relationship that is benefical to BOTH organisms |
Symbiosis | A close and usually long-term relationship between 2 different kinds of organisms |
Competition | The struggle between 2 organisms for the same resources within an environment |
Interdependence | The way all organisms depend upon each other |
Ecosystem | A community of plant and animal populations. With the abiotic environment factors (air, water, soil, temperature |
Community | Population of different species living and interacting in the same area |
Population | A group of organisms of the same species living in the smae place at the same time |
Organism | Any living thing including a plant, animal, bacteria, virus, or fungi |
Photosynthesis | When the sun gives energy to the plants, so the plants can make food for themselves and oxygen |