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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Organism | A living thing |
| Habitat | An environment that provides the things specific organisms need to live, grow, and reproduce |
| Biotic factor | Parts it a habitat that are or were once alive |
| Abiotic factor | Non living parts of an organisms habit |
| Species | A group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce offside |
| Population | All the members of one species living in a particular area. |
| Community | All the different populations that live together in an area. |
| Ecosystem | Organisms that live in a particular area, along with the non living environment |
| Ecology | The study of how organisms interact with each other and with their environment |
| Limiting factor | An environmental factor that causes a population to stop growing or to decrease |
| Carrying capacity | The largest population that an area can support |
| Population density | The number of individuals in an area of a specific size |
| Producer | An organism that makes its own food |
| Consumer | Obtains energy by feeding on other organisms |
| Decomposer | Breaks down biotic waste and dead organisms |
| Food chain | A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy and nutrients |
| Food web | Many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem |
| Energy pyramid | Shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another |
| Photosynthesis | The set a chemical reactions plants use to turn light water and nutrients into oxygen and energy in the form of sugars |
| Chlorophyll | Absorbs light |
| Autotroph | An organism that makes its own food |
| Heterotroph | An organism that has to get its food from a source and unable to make its own food |
| Carnivores | Consumer that only eats animals |
| Scavenger | A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms |
| Herbivores | Consumers that only eats plants |
| Omnivores | Consumers that eat both plants and animals |
| Symbiosis | Any relationship in which 2 species live closely together |
| Commensalism | A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped or harmed |
| Mutualism | A relationship where both species benefit |
| Parasitism | A relationship that involves one organism living with, on, or inside another organism harming it |