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Ecosystem
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Organism | A living thing |
| Habitat | An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live , grow, and reproduce. |
| Biotic factor | Parts of a habitat that are or were once alive and that interact with an organism |
| Population | All the members of one specific living in a particular area. |
| Community | All different populations that live together in an area. |
| Ecosystem | The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with the non living environment. |
| Limiting factor | Environment factor that causes a population to stop growing or to decrease in size such as a fatal disease infecting organism, organisms. |
| Abiotic factor | Nonliving parts of an organisms habitat |
| Ecology | The study of how organisms interact with each other and with their environment. |
| Species | Is a group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring. |
| Population destiny | Factors of growth |
| Limiting factor | An environment factor that causes a population to stop growing or to decrease in size, such as a fatal disease infecting organisms, organism. |
| Carrying impact | The largest population that an area can support. |
| Niche | The role of an organism in its habitat . |
| Interactions | Takes place among organisms every day. |
| Competition | The struggle between organisms to survive as they use the same limited resources. |
| Predation | An interaction in which one organism kills another for food or nutrients. |
| Symbiosis | A third type of interaction among organisms as in any relationship in which two species live together. |
| Commensalism | Is a relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed. |
| Mutualism | Which is a relain which both species benefits . |
| Parasitism | A relationship that involves one organism living with , on , or inside another organism and harming it. |
| Role | Based on the way organism obtain food and interact with other organisms. |
| Producer | An organism that can make its own food. |
| Consumer | Obtains energy by feeding on other organisms. |
| Decomposes | Break down biotic wastes and dead organisms. |
| Food chain | A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy and nutrients. |
| Food web | Consist of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem. |
| Energy pyramid | The amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web. |
| Chlorophyll | Absorbs light , much like cells in solar panels do . |
| Autotroph | An organism that makes its own food |
| Heterotroph | An organism that has to get its food from a source and unable to make its own food. |