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Ecosystem
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Organism | 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 |
| Abiotic factor | Nonliving things |
| Population | Members of one species living in a particular area |
| Community | Different population that live together in a area |
| Ecosystem | Community of organisms that lives in a particular area along nonliving things |
| Limiting factor | A fatal disease infecting organisms |
| Population density | The number of individuals in an area of a specific size |
| Carrying capacity | Largest population that an area can support |
| Ecology | Organisms that interact with each other and with their environment |
| Producer | An organism that can make its own food |
| Consumer | Obtain energy by feeding on other organisms |
| Carnivores | Consumers that only eat animals |
| Scavenger | Carnivore that feed on the bodies of dead organisms |
| Herbivores | Consumers that only eat plants and other photo synthesis organisms |
| Omnivores | Consumers eat both animals and plants |
| Decomposers | Breakdown, biotic, waste, and dead organisms |
| Food chain | A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtain energy |
| Food wed | Consist of many overlapping, food chains, and chains in that ecosystem |
| Niche | includes how an organism obtain its food, the type of food the organism eats, and what other organisms eat it. |
| Species | A group of organisms that can mate with each other |
| Energy pyramid | shows that amount of energy that moves from one feeding to another food web |
| Photosynthesis | the set of chemical reactions used to turn light water and nutrients and oxygen and energy in a form of sugars. |
| Chlorophyll | Absorb like much like cell and solar panels to the solar panels. Take the sense and energy to convert it to a form that unable electric devices, such as computers or refrigerators |
| Autotroph | That makes own food |
| Heterotroph | An organism has to get food from source and is unable to make its own food |
| Competition | When a species share niche, one of the populations might be affected. |
| Predation | Interaction in which one organism kills another for food or nutrients |
| Symbiosis | any relation in which two species closely together. |
| Commensalism | a relationship in which one species benefits, and the other species either help or harmed |
| Mutualism | a relationship in which both species benefit |
| Parasitism | a relationship that involves one organism living with, on, or inside another organism and harming it |