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Ecosystems
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |