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Populations/Ecosystems
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| niche | how an organism makes its living and interacts with the biotic and abiotic factors in its habitat |
| competition | the struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resources in the sameplace at the same time |
| predation | an interaction in which one organism kills another for food or nutrients |
| symbiosis | any relationship in which two species live closely together and that benefits at least one of the species |
| commensalism | a type of symbiosis between two species in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed |
| mutualism | a type of symbiosis in which both species benefit from living together |
| parasitism | a type of symbiosis in which one organism lives with, on or in a host and harms it |
| interactions | the action or influence of groups or things on one another |
| succession | the series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time |
| pioneer species | the species to populate an area during succession |
| colonize | a population of plants or animals in a particular place that belong to one species |
| dominate | to seem to command to rose above |
| biodiversity | the number and variety of different species in an area |
| keystone species | a species that influences the survival of many other species in an ecosystem |
| extinction | the disappearance of all members of a species from Earth |
| invasive species | species that are not native to a habitat and can out-compete native species in an ecosystem |
| value | worth or importance in comparison with something else |
| economic | based on or related to the production, distribution or consumption of goods |
| ecosystem services | the benefits that humans derive from ecosystems |
| ecology | the study of how organisms interact with each other and their environment |
| natural resource | anything naturally occurring in the environment that humans use |
| conservation | the practice of using less of a resource so that it can last longer |
| sustainability | the ability of an ecosystem to maintain biodiversity and production indefinitely |
| ecological restoration | the practice of helping a degraded or destroyed ecosystem recover from damage |
| regulation | act of ruling or telling how something is to be done |
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