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Ecosystem
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Organism | or living thing |
| Habitat | that’s provided the things a specific organism needs to live or grow and reproduces. |
| Biotic factor | Parts that were once alive |
| abiotic factor | No living parts of an organism |
| Spiecies | is a group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring |
| Population | All the members of one species living ina particular area called referred to as a population |
| Community | All the different populations that live together in an area make up a |
| Ecosystem | Community of organisms that’s live in a particular area with the non living environment makes up |
| Ecology | The study of how organism interact with each other with their environment is called |
| Population density | The number of individuals in an area |
| Limiting factor | An environment causes a population to size decrease and a fatal disease infecting organism |
| Carrying capacity | The largest population |
| Producer | Energy enters most ecosystems as sunlight |
| Consumer | obtained energy feeding on other organism. |
| Decomposer | break down biotic wastes and dead organism |
| Food chain | is a series of events and another can be obtain energy |
| Food web | consists of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem |
| Energy pyramid | shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web |
| Photosynthesis | Is a set or chemical reactions plants use to light, water and nutrients into oxygen and energy, the form of surgars |
| chlorophyll | absorbs light, much like cells in solar panels do. |
| Autograph | An organism that makes its own food is known |
| Heterotroph | An organism that has to get its food from a source and is unable to make its own food is called a heterotrop |
| Symbiosis | Is any relationship in which two species live closely together. |
| Commensalism | Is a relationship In which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped or nor harmed. |
| Mutualism | Which is a relationship in which both species benefits. |
| Parasitism | Is a relationship that involves one organism living with, on, or inside another organism and harming it. |