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Ecosystems
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Organism | Living things |
| Habitat | An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce is called a habitat. |
| Biotic Factor | The parts of a habitat that are or were once alive and that interact with an organism. |
| Abiotic Factor | The nonlivng parts of an organism’s habitat. |
| Species | A group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce. |
| Population | All the members of one species living in a particular area are referred to as a population. |
| Community | All the different populations that live together in an area. |
| Ecosystem | The community of organisms that lives in a particular area, along with the nonliving environment. |
| Ecology | The study of how organisms interact with each other and with their environment. |
| Population density | The number of individuals in an area of a specific size. |
| Limiting factor | An environment factor that causes a population to stop going or to decrease in size. |
| Carrying capacity | The largest population that an area can support. |