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Eco system
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Population density | Number of individuals in an area of a specific size |
| Limiting factor | Stop growing or decrease in size |
| Carrying capacity | The largest population An Area can support |
| Organizem | Living thing |
| Habitat | An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to five. grow, and reproduce |
| Species | A group of organisms that are mate with each other and produce offspring A group of organisms that are mate with each other and produce offspring |
| Population | All the members of one species living in a particular area |
| Community | All member of an area |
| Eco system | Organisms that live in particular area, along with the nonliving environme |
| Ecology | The study of how organisms interact with each other and with there environment |
| Population density | The number of individuals in an area of a specific size |
| Producer | Organism that can make its own food is a producer |
| Consumer | Eat only animals |
| Decomposers | Break down bit waste and dead organisms |
| Food chain | Series of events in whit h one organism eats one another and obtains energy |
| Food web | Consists of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem |
| Energy pyramid | Shows amount of energy that moves from one feeding leaves ppl to anotgerin a food web |
| Photosynthesis | The set of chemical reactions plants use to turn on light water and nutrients into oxygen and energy in forms of sugar |
| Chlorophyll | Absorbs light |
| Auto troph | An organism that makes its own food |
| Herotroph | An organism that has to get its food from a source and unable to makes its own food |
| Niche | Includes how organisms o attains its food, they type of food organism eats and what other organisms eat it. |
| Commtion | When 2 species share a niche, 1 population may be affected. |
| Predation | When 1 organism kills on another food or nutrients. |
| Symbiosis | When species live closely live together. |
| Commensalism | One species benefit and other nor harmed or helped. |
| Mutualism | When both species benefit. |
| Parasitism | Invokes a organism living inside other organisms harming it.l |
| Carnivore | an organism that only eats animals |
| Herbivore | an animal or organism that only eats plants |
| Omnivore | Eat both plants and animals |