Is a living thing that gets food, water, shelter, and other things from it’s environment that it needs to live, grow, and reproduce.

Is different types of surroundings, or environments that change when traveling.

Is parts of a habitat that are or were once alive.

Are the nonliving parts of an organism’s habitat.

Is a group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring.

Are all the members of one species living in a particular area.

Are all the different populations that live together in an area.

Is organisms that lives in a particular area, along with the nonliving environment.

Is the study of how organisms interact with each other and with their environment.

10. Population Density

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

An environmental factor that causes a population to stop growing or decrease.

12. Carrying capacity

The largest population that an area can support.

13. Density population

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

An organism that can make its own food.

Obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.

Is a consumer that only eats meat.

Is a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.

Consumers that eat both plants and animals.

Break down biotic wastes and dead organisms.

Is a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy and nutrients.

Consists of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.

Shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.

Is the set of chemical reactions plants use to turn light, water, and nutrients into oxygen and energy, in the form of sugar.

An organism that has to get its food from a source.

Is unable to make its own food.

Takes place among organisms every day.

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Ecosystems

Term	Definition
1. Organism	Is a living thing that gets food, water, shelter, and other things from it’s environment that it needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
2. Habitat	Is different types of surroundings, or environments that change when traveling.
3. Biotic factors	Is parts of a habitat that are or were once alive.
4. Abiotic factors	Are the nonliving parts of an organism’s habitat.
5. Species	Is a group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring.
6. Population	Are all the members of one species living in a particular area.
7. Community	Are all the different populations that live together in an area.
8. Ecosystem	Is organisms that lives in a particular area, along with the nonliving environment.
9. Ecology	Is the study of how organisms interact with each other and with their environment.
10. Population Density	The number of individuals in an area of a specific size.
11. Limiting factor	An environmental factor that causes a population to stop growing or decrease.
12. Carrying capacity	The largest population that an area can support.
13. Density population	The number of individuals in an area of a specific size.
14. Producer	An organism that can make its own food.
15. Consumer	Obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.
16. Carnivore	Is a consumer that only eats meat.
17. Scavenger	Is a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
18. Omnivore	Consumers that eat both plants and animals.
19. Decomposers	Break down biotic wastes and dead organisms.
20. Food chain	Is a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy and nutrients.
21. Food web	Consists of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
22. Energy pyramid	Shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.
23. Photosynthesis	Is the set of chemical reactions plants use to turn light, water, and nutrients into oxygen and energy, in the form of sugar.
24. Chlorophyll	Absorbs light.
25. Autotroph	An organism that has to get its food from a source.
26. Heterotroph	Is unable to make its own food.
27. Interactions	Takes place among organisms every day.

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