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Population Ecology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Competition | to struggle for resources |
| Community | many populations living in the same area |
| Niche | organism's role |
| Carrying Capacity | total number of organisms that an area can provide for support |
| Symbiosis | relationship between species where 1 of the organisms benefits (three types: Mutualism, Parasitism, commensalism) |
| Cooperation | to work together |
| Hosts | organism that the parasite lives on or in (example: dog) |
| Parasite | organism that lives on host and benefits (example: tick) |
| Limiting Factor | resource that stops population growth |
| Territorial | to defend ones area |
| Commensalism | relationship where one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed (it doesn't care) |
| Ecosystem | living and non-living parts of the environment |
| Mutualism | relationships where both organisms benefit |
| Population | more than one of the same organisms in an area |
| Social hierarchy | levels of power in a group, like the alpha male in a wolf pack |
| Abiotic | Nonliving: The abiotic factors of the environment include light, temperature, and atmospheric gases. |
| Predation | where a predator (an organism that is hunting) feeds on its prey, |
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lrholt
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