An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs, to live, grow, and reproduce.

The parts of a habitat that are or were once alive.

No living parts of an organism’s habitat.

A group or organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring.

All the members of one species living in a particular area.

All the different populations that live together in an area.

The community or organisms that lives in a particular area, along with the non living environment.

The study of how organisms interact with each other and with their enviorment.

The number of individuals in an area of a specific size.

Environmental factor that causes a population to stop growing or to decrease in size.

The largest population that an area can support.

Obtains energy by feeding on other organisms

A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms

Consumer that eat both plants and animals.

Break down biotic wastes and dead organisms

A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.

Consists of many overlapping food chains in an echo system.

A relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped or harmed.

A relationship in which both species benefit

A relationship that involves one organism living with, on, or inside another organism harming it.

The struggle between organisms to survive as they use the same limited resources.

How an organism obtains its food, the type of food an organism eats, and what other organisms eat it.

An organism that can make its own food

Shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web

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Echosystems

Term	Definition
Habitat	An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs, to live, grow, and reproduce.
Organism	Living thing
Biotic factor	The parts of a habitat that are or were once alive.
Abiotic factor	No living parts of an organism’s habitat.
Species	A group or organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring.
Population	All the members of one species living in a particular area.
Community	All the different populations that live together in an area.
Ecosystem	The community or organisms that lives in a particular area, along with the non living environment.
Ecology	The study of how organisms interact with each other and with their enviorment.
Population density	The number of individuals in an area of a specific size.
Limiting factor	Environmental factor that causes a population to stop growing or to decrease in size.
Carrying capacity	The largest population that an area can support.
Consumer	Obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Carnivores	Only eat animals
Scavenger	A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Herbivores	Consumers that only eat plants
Omnivore	Consumer that eat both plants and animals.
Decomposers	Break down biotic wastes and dead organisms
Food chain	A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
Food web	Consists of many overlapping food chains in an echo system.
Commensalism	A relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped or harmed.
Mutualism	A relationship in which both species benefit
Parasitism	A relationship that involves one organism living with, on, or inside another organism harming it.
Competition	The struggle between organisms to survive as they use the same limited resources.
Niche	How an organism obtains its food, the type of food an organism eats, and what other organisms eat it.
Producer	An organism that can make its own food
Energy pyramid	Shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web

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