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 and that interact with an organism.

Nonliving parts of an organism’s habitat

A group of organism that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring.

All the members of one species living in a particular area

All the different populations that live together in a area.

The community of an organisms that lives in a particular area, along with the nonliving environment.

The study of living organisms interaction

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

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

An organism that can make its own food

Obtains energy by feeding on other organisms

Break down biotic waste and organisms

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

Consists of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem

The amount of energy that moved from one feeding level to another in a food web

The set of chemical reactions plants use to turn light, water, and nutrients into oxygen and energy, in form of sugars

An organism that makes its own food

Any relationship in which two species live closely together

A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed

A relationship in which both species benefit

Parasitism is 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.

The largest population that an area can support

Consumers that only eat plants other photosynthesis organisms

An organism that will look for other organisms to prey upon

Obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.

Eats plants and meat/ eats anything.

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Ecosystem

Term	Definition
Organism	A living thing
Habitat	An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
Biotic factor	The parts of a habitat that are or were once alive and that interact with an organism.
Abiotic factor	Nonliving parts of an organism’s habitat
Species	A group of organism that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring.
Population	All the members of one species living in a particular area
Community	All the different populations that live together in a area.
Ecosystem	The community of an organisms that lives in a particular area, along with the nonliving environment.
Ecology	The study of living organisms interaction
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.
Producer	An organism that can make its own food
Consumer	Obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Decomposes	Break down biotic waste and 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 ecosystem
Energy pyramid	The amount of energy that moved from one feeding level to another in a food web
Photosynthesis	The set of chemical reactions plants use to turn light, water, and nutrients into oxygen and energy, in form of sugars
Chlorophyll	Absorbs light.
Autotroph	An organism that makes its own food
Heterotroph	Unable to make its own food
symbiosis	Any relationship in which two species live closely together
Commensalism	A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Mutualism	A relationship in which both species benefit
Parasitism	Parasitism is 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.
Carrying capacity	The largest population that an area can support
Herbivore	Consumers that only eat plants other photosynthesis organisms
Scavenger	An organism that will look for other organisms to prey upon
Carnivore	Obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.
Omnivore	Eats plants and meat/ eats anything.

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