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Ecosystem
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Organism | Living things |
| Habitat | An environment that provides the thing a specific organism needs to live. |
| Biotic factor | Parts of a habitat that are or were once alive. |
| Abiotic factor | Non living parts in an organism’s habitat |
| Population | All members of one’s species living in a particular area |
| Community | All the different populations that live together |
| Ecosystem | The community of organisms that live in particular area, along with the non living environment. |
| Limiting factor | Factors that cause a population to stop growing or to decrease in size as a fatal disease infecting organisms. |
| Population Density | The number of individuals in an area |
| Carrying capacity | The largest population in an area |
| Producer | An organism that makes its own food |
| Consumer | Obtains energy by feeding on other organisms |
| Decomposer | Breaks down biotic wastes and dead organisms |
| Food chain | A series of events in which one organism eats another. |
| Food web | Consists of many overlapping food chains |
| Energy pyramid | shows the amount energy that moves from one section to the other |
| Photosynthesis | the set of chemicals reactions plants use to turn light, water, and nutrients into oxygen. |
| Chlorophyll | absorbs light, much like cells in solar panels so |
| Autotroph | An organism that makes its own food. |
| Heterotroph | A source and is unable to make its own food. |
| Symbiosis | Any relationship between two animals that live closely together. |
| Commensalism | Relationship in which one species benefits on other with out harm |
| Mutualism | Which is a relationship in which both species benifit. |
| Parasitism | A relationship that involves one organism living with, on, or inside another organism harming it |
| Competition | The struggle between organism to survive on limited resources |
| Herbivores | Only eat plants |
| Carnivores | Only eat other consumers |
| Omnivore | Eat plants and other consumers |