Environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live or grow and reproduce

Parts of a habitat that are or were once alive and that intact with an organism

Nonliving parts of an organism habitat

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

Community of organisms that live 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

I am an environmental factor that causes the population to stop growing or to decrease in size, such such as fatal disease, disease infecting organisms.

The largest population that an area can support

An organism that can make its own food

Obtains energy by feeding on other organisms

Consumer that eat plants and animals

Break down biotic wastes and dead organisms

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

Consist of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem

How an organism obtains its food, the type of food the organism eats, and what other organisms it eats.

Takes place among a organism every day.

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

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

Two species live closely together.

One species benefit and the other is neither helped or hamed.

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Ecosystem

Term	Definition
Organism	Living thing
Habitat	Environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live or grow and reproduce
Biotic factors	Parts of a habitat that are or were once alive and that intact with an organism
Abiotic factors	Nonliving parts of an organism habitat
Species	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	Community of organisms that live 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	I am an environmental factor that causes the population to stop growing or to decrease in size, such such as fatal disease, disease infecting organisms.
Carrying capacity	The largest population that an area can support
Produces	An organism that can make its own food
Consumer	Obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Carnivore	Consumer that eat only animals
Herbivore	Consumers that eat only plants
Omnivore	Consumer that eat plants and animals
Decomposer	Break down biotic wastes and dead organisms
Food chain	A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtain energy and nutrients
Food web	Consist of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
Niche	How an organism obtains its food, the type of food the organism eats, and what other organisms it eats.
Interactions	Takes place among a organism every day.
Competition	The struggle between organism to survive as they use the same limited resources.
Predation	An interaction in which one organism kills another for food or nutrients.
Symbiosis	Two species live closely together.
Commensalism	One species benefit and the other is neither helped or hamed.
Mutualism	Both species benefits.

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