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Ecosystems
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Organism | A living thing |
| Resources | An organism gets food, water, shelters , and other things from its environment to live grow and reproduce. |
| Habitat | An environment the provides the things a specific organism needs to live grow and reproduce. |
| Biotic factors | Parts of a habitat that were once alive and interact with an organism |
| Abiotic factors | Nonliving parts of an organisms 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 |
| Community | All the different populations that live together in an area |
| Ecosystem | A 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 their environment |
| 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 in size, such as a fatal disease infecting organisms |
| Carrying capacity | The largest population that an area can support |