An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.

The parts of a habitat that are or were once alive and that interact with an organism.

Nonliving parts of an organisms habit.

A group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring.

All the members of one species living in a particular area.

All the different populations that live together in an area.

The community of organisms that lives in a particular area, along with the nonliving environment.

The study of how organisms interact with each other and with their environment.

The number of individuals in an area of a specific size.

An environmental factor that causes a population to stop growing or decrease in size.

The largest population that an area can support.

An organism that can make its own food.

Obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.

Break down biotic wastes and dead organisms.

A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy and nutrients.

Consists of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.

Shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.

The set of chemical reactions plants use to turn light, water, and nutrients into oxygen and energy, in the form of sugars.

Absorbs light, much like cells in solar panels do.

An organism that makes its own food.

An organism that has to get its foos from a source and is unable to make its own food.

Consumers that eat only animals.

A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.

Consumers that eat only plants and other photosynthetic organisms.

Consumers that eat both plants and animals.

Includes how an organism obtains its food, the type of food the organism eats, and what organisms eat it.

The struggle between organisms to survive as they use the same limited resources.

An interaction in which one organism kills another for food or nutrients.

Is any relationship in which two species live closely together.

Is a relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed.

A relationship in which both species benefit.

Is a relationship that involves one organism living with, on, or inside another organism and harming it.

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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 Factors	The parts of a habitat that are or were once alive and that interact with an organism.
Abiotic Factors	Nonliving parts of an organisms habit.
Species	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 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.
Population Density	The number of individuals in an area of a specific size.
Limiting factor	An environmental factor that causes a population to stop growing or decrease in size.
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.
Decomposer	Break down biotic wastes and dead organisms.
Food chain	A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy and nutrients.
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 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 sugars.
Chlorophyll	Absorbs light, much like cells in solar panels do.
Autotroph	An organism that makes its own food.
Heterotroph	An organism that has to get its foos from a source and is unable to make its own food.
Carnivores	Consumers that eat only animals.
Scavenger	A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
Herbivores	Consumers that eat only plants and other photosynthetic organisms.
Omnivores	Consumers that eat both plants and animals.
Niche	Includes how an organism obtains its food, the type of food the organism eats, and what organisms eat it.
Competition	The struggle between organisms to survive as they use the same limited resources.
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 is neither helped nor harmed.
Mutualism	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.

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