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

Part of a habitat that are or were once alive

Nonliving things in the environment

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

All the members of one species living in a particular area

All the different populations that live together in an area

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 environment factor that causes a population to stop growing

The largest population that an area can support

Obtains energy by feeding on other organisms

Consumers that eat only animals

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

Break down biotic wastes and dead organisms

An organism that can make its own food

A series of events in which one organism eats another

Consists of many overlapping food chains

Shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another

The set of chemical reactions plants use to turn light water and nutrients into oxygen and energy

An organism that makes its own food

An organism that has to get its food from a source

How an organism obtains it food/ the type of food

The struggle between organisms to survive

One organism kills another for food or nutrients

Any relationship in which two species live closely together

A relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed

which is a relationship in which both species benefit.

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

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Ecosystem

Question	Answer
Organism	An live thing
Habitat	Environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live grow and reproduce
Biotic factors	Part of a habitat that are or were once alive
Abiotic factors	Nonliving things in the environment
Species	A group of organisms that can mate with each 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	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 environment factor that causes a population to stop growing
Carrying capacity	The largest population that an area can support
Consumer	Obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Carnivores	Consumers that eat only animals
Scavenger	Carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Herbivores	Consumers that eat only plants and other photosynthetic organisms
Omnivore	Consumers that eat both plants and animals
Decomposers	Break down biotic wastes and dead organisms
Producer	An organism that can make its own food
Food chain	A series of events in which one organism eats another
Food web	Consists of many overlapping food chains
Energy pyramid	Shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another
Photosynthesis	The set of chemical reactions plants use to turn light water and nutrients into oxygen and energy
Chlorophyll	Absorbs light
Autotroph	An organism that makes its own food
Heterotroph	An organism that has to get its food from a source
Niche	How an organism obtains it food/ the type of food
Competition	The struggle between organisms to survive
Predation	One organism kills another for food or nutrients
Symbiosis	Any relationship in which two species live closely together
Commensalism	A relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor 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.

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