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Science Vocab
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Change | When something becomes different over time |
| Competition | When two or more populations use the same resource, such as the same food source |
| Consumer population | A population that eats organisms from another population |
| Ecologist | A scientist who studies the interactions of organisms with each other and their environment |
| Ecosystem | All the living and nonliving things interacting in a particular area |
| Energy | The ability to make things move or change |
| Energy storage molecules | A molecule that organisms can use to release the energy needed to survive |
| Food web | A model that shows what eats what in an ecosystem |
| Glucose | A molecule that organisms can use to release energy, and that is made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms |
| Indirect effect | The result of one cause leading to an effect that causes one or more other effects |
| Organisms | Living things, such as plants, animals, and bacteria |
| Population | A group of the same type of organism living in the same area |
| Reproduction | The process of creating offspring |
| Resource Population | A population that is eaten by organisms from another population |
| Sample | A small part that is meant to show what the whole is like |
| Stability | When something stays mostly the same over time |
| Parasitism | When one organism lives on in another organism and harms it. |
| Mutualism | When both species benefit from the relationship. |
| Commensalism | When one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed. |
| Predator | An animal that hunts another animal. |
| Prey | An animal that gets hunted by another animal. |