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Ecosystem
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Organism | living thing. |
| Habitat | An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce |
| Biotic Factor | The parts of a habitat that are or were once alive and that interact with an organism are called |
| Abiotic Factor | are the nonliving parts of an organism's habitat. |
| Species | is a group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce. |
| Population | All the members of one species living in a particular area |
| Community | All the different populations that live together in an area |
| Ecosystem | The community of organisms that lives in a particular area, along with the nonliving environment |
| Ecology | The study of how organisms interact with each other and with their environment |
| Producer | An organism that can make its own food |
| Consumer | Obtains energy by feeding on other organisms |
| Decomposer | break down biotic wastes and dead organisms, returning the raw materials to the ecosystem |
| Food Chain | A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy and nutrients |
| Energy Pyramid | A diagram called an blank shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web |
| Photosynthesis | Is the set of chemical reactions plants use to turn light, water, and nutrients into oxygen and energy |
| Chlorophyll | Absorbs lights much like cells in solar panels do |
| Autotroph | An organisms that makes its own food is known as a blank |
| Heterotroph | An organism that has to get its food from a source and is unable to make its own food |
| Carnivore | A consumer that only eats meat. |
| Herbivore | Consumers that eat only plants and other photosynthetic organisms |
| Scavengers | A carnivore that feeds on the body of dead organisms |
| Omnivore | Consumers that eat both plants and animals |
| Niche | A niche includes how an organism obtains its food, the type of food the organism eats and what organisms eat it |
| Interaction | range of blank takes place among organisms every day |
| Competition | The struggle between organisms to survive as they use the same limited resources |
| Predation | An interaction in which one organism is the predator and the other is pray |
| Symbiosis | any relationship in which two species live closely together. |
| commensalism | Relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed |
| Mutualism | A relationship which both species benefits |
| Parasitism | A relationship that involves one organism living with, on ,or inside another organism and harming it |