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Ecosystem
Ecosyem
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Organism | Living things |
| Habitat | An environment that provides things a specific organism needs to live grow and reproduce |
| Biotic factor | The parts of a habit that are or were once alive and that interact with an organism |
| Abiotic factor | No living parts of an organism habitat |
| Population | All members of one species living in a particular area are referred to as a population |
| Community | All the different populations that love together in an area |
| Ecosystem | Organisms that live in a particular area along with non living environments |
| Species | Is a group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring |
| Ecology | The study of how organisms interact with each other and with their environment |
| Producer | An organism that can make it own food |
| Consumer | Obtains energy by feeding on other organisms |
| Decomposers | Breach down biotic wastes and dead organisms returning the raw materials to the ecosystem |
| Food chain | Is a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy |
| Food wed | Consist 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 |
| Symbiosis | Is any relationship in which two species live close together |
| Commensalism | Is a relationship in which one species |
| Symbiosis | Is any relationship in which two species live closely together |
| Commensalism | Is a relationship in which one species benifits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed |
| Mutualism | Which is a relationship in which both species benefits |
| Predation | An interaction in which organisms kills another for food or nutrients. |
| Niche | The organisms in any ecosystem have adaptations that help them fill specific roles or functions |
| Competition | When two species share a niche one of their populations might be affected |
| Population density | The number of individuals in an area of specific size |
| Limiting factor | An environment factor that causes a population to stop growing or to decrease in size |
| Carrying capity | The largest population that an area can surpport |
| Parasitism | A relationship that involves one organism living with on or inside another organism and harming it. |
| Autotroph | An orgainsim makes it own food |
| Heterotroph | An orgainsim that has to get its food from a source and is unable to make its own food. |
| Chlorophyll | Absorbs light |
| Omnivores | Consumers that only eat planets |
| Scavenger | A carnovore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms |