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Ecosystem
| Questi | Answer |
|---|---|
| Organism | Living things |
| Habitat | Environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce. |
| Biotic factors | The parts of a habitat that are or were once alive. |
| Abiotic factors | The nonliving parts of an or organism’s habitat. |
| Species | Is a group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring. |
| Population | All the members of one species living in a particular area. |
| Community | All the difference populations that live together in an area. |
| Ecology | The study of how organisms interact with each other and with their environment. |
| Population density | The number of individuals in an area of a specific size. |
| Limited factor | An environmental factor that causes a population to stop growing or to decrease. |
| Carrying capacity | The largest population that an area can support. |
| Producer | An organism that can make its own food. |
| Consumer | Obtain energy by feeding on the other organisms. |
| Scavenger | Is a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms. |
| Decomposers | Break down biotic wastes and dead organisms, mushrooms, bacteria, and mold. |
| Food chain | Is a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. |
| Herbivores | Are consumers that eat only plants and other photosynthesis organisms. |
| Food web | Consists of many overlapping food chains. |
| Energy pyramid | Shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level or another in a food web. |
| Photosynthesis | The set of chemical reactions plants use to turn light, water, and nutrients into oxygen and energy, in the form of sugar. |
| Chlorophyll | Absorbs light |
| Autotroph | An organism that makes its own food . |
| Heterotrophs | An organism that has to get its food from a source-and id unable to make its own food |
| Niche | How an organism obtains its food, the type of food the organism eats, and what other organisms eat it. |
| Competition | When two species share a niche, one of their populations might be affected. |
| Predation | An interaction in which one organism kills another for food or nutrients. |
| Symbiosis | Is any relationship in which two species live closely together. |
| Commensalism | Is a relationship in which one species benefits and the other species in neither helped nor harmed. |
| Mutualism | Which is a relationship in which both species benefit. |
| Parasitism | Is a relationship that involves one organism living with, on, or inside another organism and harming it. |