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Ecosystem
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Organism | Living thing. |
| Habitat | The place a organism needs to live grow and reproduce. |
| Biotic factor | Parts of a habitat that was once alive. |
| Abiotic factor | Non living parts of a organisms habitat. |
| Population | The members of one species living in a perticular area. |
| Community | All the different populations that live together in a area. |
| Ecosystem | The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with the non living environment. |
| Ecology | The study of how organisms interact with their environment and each other. |
| Species | |
| Population density | |
| Limiting factor | |
| Carrying capacity | |
| Niche | The role of a organism in its habitat. |
| 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 | Any relationship in which two species live closely together. |
| Commensalism | A relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped or harmed. |
| Mutualism | A relationship in which both species are beneficial. |
| Parasitism | A relationship that involves one organism living with, on or inside another organism and harming it. |
| Producer | |
| Consumer | |
| Decomposer | |
| Food chain | |
| Food web | |
| Energy pyramid | |
| Photosynthesis | |
| Chlorophyll | |
| Autotroph | |
| Heterotroph |