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Ecosystem

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Organism Living thing
Species Is a group of organizations that mate with each other and produce offspring.
Habitat A environment that gives a organism to live and grow and reproduce.
Biotic factors Parts of a habitat that were once alive and interact with a organism.
Abiotic factors Nonliving parts of a habitat like water.
Population All members of one species living in a particular area.
Community All different populations that live together in a area.
Ecosystem The community of organisms that lives in a particular area a long with the Nonliving environment.
Ecology The study of how organisms interact with each other and with their environment.
Population density The number of individuals in a area of a specific size
Limiting factor Environmental factor that causes a population to stop growing or decrease
Carrying capacity The largest population that an area can support
Producer An organism that can make its own food
Consumer Obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Decomposers Break down other biotic wastes and dead organisms
Food chain A series of evoking which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Food web Consists of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
Energy pyramid Shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another
Photosynthesis Is a set of chemical reactions that turns light water and nutrients into oxygen
Chlorophyll Absorbs light
Autotroph An organism that makes its own food is known as
Heterotroph An organism that has to get its own food from a source
Scavenger Feeds on bodies of dead organisms
Herbivores Consumers that only eat plants
Omnivore Consumers that eat both plants and animals
Carnivore Consumers that only eat other animals
Niche How a organism eats and gets its food.
Competition The struggle between organisms to survive as they use the same limited resources
Predation Is an interaction of one organism that is a predator and the other is pray.
Symbiosis Any relationship in which two species live closely together
Commensalism Is a relationship in which one species benefits and the other doesn’t get helped or harmed
Mutualism Which is a relationship in which both species benefit
Parasitism A relationship that involves one organism living with on or inside another organism and harming it
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