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Where Have All The Creatures Gone?

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Biology The science of life or living matter in all its forms and phenomena, especially with reference to origin, growth, reproduction, structure, and behavior.
Biologist A scientist that studies life or living matter.
Observations The information or record of a fact or occurrence for some scientific purpose.
Interactions The direct effect that one kind of organism has on another organism or other non-living thing.
Quantitative Data that can be counted or measured.
Qualitative Data relating to an essential or distinctive characteristic, property, descriptions or attributes.
Organism A living thing made up of one or more cells and able to carry on the activities of life.
Population A group of similar organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
Field Study Scientific research, exploration, or observation conducted outside the laboratory or classroom.
Predator The organism that does the killing in a predation interaction.
Prey An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism in a predation interaction.
Producer An organism that can make its own food.
Consumer An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.
Photosynthesis The process by which plants make their own food using carbon dioxide, water and sunlight.
Food Chain A series of events in an ecosystem in which organisms transfer energy by eating and by being eaten.
Food Web The pattern of overlapping feeding relationships or food chains among the various organisms in an ecosystem.
Interconnected Having internal connections between the other organisms parts or elements.
Ecosystem The community of organisms that live in an area, along with their nonliving environment.
Invasive Species Any non-native species that disturbs the ecosystems in which it has been introduced and may harm other living things and the environment.
Native Species Plants and animals that originated and live in an area without any human intervention
Stable Populations Population rates that remain constant over time.
Unstable Populations Population rates that change over time.
Fluctuate To change continually and especially up and down.
Biotic Factor A living part of an organism's habitat.
Abiotic Factor A nonliving part of an organism's habitat.
Bioaccumulation When the amount of pollutant increases within an organism over time.
Dioxin A group of highly toxic chemical compounds that are harmful to health. They can cause problems with reproduction, development, and the immune system.
Pollutant A substance that makes something (as air or water) impure and often unsafe.
Symbiosis Any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms.
Commensalism A type of symbiosis between two species in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed.
Parasitism A type of symbiosis in which one organism lives with, on, or in a host and harms it.
Mutualism A type of symbiosis in which both species benefit from living together.
Host The thing that the parasite lives in or on and harms it.
Limiting Factors An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease in size.
Carrying Capacity The number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without harming the environment.
Indirect Interaction The transfer of energy from one organism to another but transmitted by a third organism.
Direct Interaction The transfer of energy from one organism to another organism.
Competition When two or more organisms fight for resources (food, space, shelter, mate)
Environment The surroundings and the factors in their surroundings that organisms interact with.
Habitat The natural places and conditions in which organisms are found.
Individual A single organism. It can be a plant, animal, fungus or microorganism
Community All the different populations that live together in a particular area.
Energy Flow The movement or transfer of energy from one trophic level to the next in an ecosystem.
Phosphorus A chemical element that glows in the dark and in moist air.
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