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Ecosystems

TermDefinition
Organisms Living thing
Habitat Environment that provides the things a pacific organism needs to live grow and reproduce.
Biotic factor The parts of the habitat that were once alive
Abiotic factors Are the no living parts of an organism
Species A group of organisms that can mate with each other
Populations All the members of one species living in a area
Community All populations that live together
Ecosystem The community of an organism particular area along with nonliving environments
Ecology The study is how organisms interact with each other
Population density The number of individuals in an area of a specific size.
Limiting factor An environmental factor that causes a population to stop growing or to decrease
Carrying capacity The largest population that an area can support is called it’s carrying capacity
Producer An organism that can make its own food
Consumer Obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Decomposers Brake down biotic wast and dead organisms.
Carnivore An organism that eats meat that they hunt
Scavenger An organism that looks for leftover meat from carnivores
Food chain Is a series of events in wich one organism eats another and abstains energy
Food web Consistent of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Omnivore When eats both plants and animals
Population Density The number of individuals in an area of a specific size.
Energy pyramid Shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.
Photosynthesis Is the set of chemical reactions plant used to turn light water and nutrients into oxygen and energy
Chlorophyll Absorbs light much like like solar panels do.
Autotroph Organism that has to get a food from source
Heterotroph They make their own food
Niche How an organism obtain his food the type of food organism eat, and what organism eats it
Interaction Takes place among organisms every day two major types of interaction among organisms are competing and production
Competition The struggle between organisms to survive as they use the same limited source called competition
Predation Interaction one organism is the predator and the other is the pray
Symbiosis Is a relationship with species close together are three types of relationships, communism, mutation, and parasite
Communism Relationship which one species benefits, and the other one is not harmed
Mutualism is a relationship in which both species are benefited
Parasitism Is a relationship that involves one organism living with on or inside another orgasm and harming it
Herbivore Eats only plants
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