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Ecosystems
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Organisms | A living thing |
| Habitat | A environment that provides something’s a organism needs to grow and reproduce |
| Biotic factor | Parts of a habitat that is or was alive |
| Abiotic factor | Organism also interact with non living things in a environment |
| Species | A group of organisms that can mate with eachother |
| Population | All the members of one species living in a particular area are referred to as a population |
| Community | All the different populations that live together in a area make up a community |
| Ecosystem | The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with the non-living environment, make up an ecosystem |
| Ecology | The study of how organisms interact with each other and with the environment is called ecology |
| Population density | The number of individuals in an area of a specific size. |
| Limiting factor | A fatal disease infecting organisms is a limiting factor |
| Carrying capacity | The largest population that an area can support is called it’s carrying capacity |
| Producer | A organism that makes its own food |
| Consumer | Feeds on other organism |
| Decomposer | Break down the waste and the dead organisms returning raw materials |
| Food chain | A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy and nutrients |
| Food web | Overlapping food chains in a ecosystem |
| Energy pyramid | Shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web |
| Photosynthesis | A set of chemical reactions plants use to turn energy in the form of sugars. |
| Chlorophyll | Absorbs light much like cells in solar panels do |
| Autotroph | A animal that makes it own food |
| Heteroph | A animal that has to get food |
| Carnivores | Consumers that only eat meat |
| Herbivores | Consumers that only eat plants |
| Omnivores | Consumers that eat both plants and animals |
| Niche | The role of a organism in its habitat |
| Competition | When 2 species share a niche it starts a competition |
| Predation | When one organism kills another organism for food |
| Symbiosis | Any relationship where 2 species live closely together |
| Commensalism | A relationship where one species benefits and the other are not beneficial |
| Mutualism | A relationship where both organisms benefit. |
| Parasitism | A relation ship where one organism is living inside a other organism and harming it |
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