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Ecosystem
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |