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Ecosystems
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Organisms | Living thing |
| Habitat | An environment that provides the specific organisms needs to survive and eat |
| Biotic factor | Parts of a habitat that are or were once alive and the interaction |
| Abiotic | Are the non living parts of the organisms habitat |
| Population | All of the members of the one species living in a particular area |
| Community | All of the difference populations that live together |
| Ecosystems | The study of how the organisms that live and interact with each other The community of organisms that lives in a particular alone with the non living environment |
| Ecology | The study of how the organisms that live and interact with each other |
| Species | Is a group of organisms that can mate with each other. |
| Producer | A organism that can make its own food |
| Consumer | A obtains energy by feeding on other organisms |
| Decomposes | Break down biotic wastes and dead organisms, returning the raw materials in the ecosystem |
| Food chain | Is a serious of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy and nutrients |
| Foos web | Consists of many overlapping food chains in a ecosystem |
| Energy pyramid | Shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeling level |
| Photosynthesis | The set of chemicals 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 |
| Heterotrophs | An organism that has to get its food from a source |
| Ecosystems | An ecosystem is a place full of different kinds of species |
| Symbiosis | Is any relationship in which two species live closely together |
| Commensalism | Is a relationship in one species benefits and the other one is harmed |
| Mutualism | Which is a relationship in which both species benefit |
| Parasitism | Is a relationship that involves one organism that living with, in , or inside the organism and harming it |
| Density | The number of individuals in an area of a specific size. |
| Limiting factor | A growing environment that causes a population to stop growing or to decrease in size. |
| Role | Every organism plays the energy role. |
| Food web | Consists of many overlapping food chains |
| Energy pyramid | Shows the amount of energy that moves from one to another |
| Photosynthesis | Is a et of chemical’s reactions plants use to get nutrients, sugars, and oxygen |
| Chlorophyll | Absorbs light |
| Heterotrophs | A organism that has to get its food source |