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Ecosystems
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Organism | Living thing |
| Habitat | An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce |
| Biotic factor | Parts of a habitat that are or were once alive |
| Abiotic factor | Nonliving parts of an organism’s habitat |
| Species | 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 the populations that live together in an area |
| Ecosystem | Organisms that live in particular area, along with the nonliving environment |
| 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 |
| Limiting factor | An environmental factor that causes a population to stop growing or to decrease |
| 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 |
| Carnivores | Consumers that eat only animals |
| Scavenger | Carnivore that feeds on bodies of dead organisms |
| Herbivores | Consumers that only eat plants |
| Omnivores | Consumers that eat both plants and animals |
| Food chain | One organism eats another and obtains energy |
| Food web | Many overlapping food chain |
| Energy pyramid | Amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another |
| Chlorophyll | Absorbs light |
| Autotroph | An organism that makes its own food |
| Heterotroph | An organism that has to get its food from a source |
| Niche | An organism obtains its food, the type of food the organism eats, and what other organisms eat it |
| Competition | The struggle between organism to survive as they use the same limited resources |
| 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 | A relationship in which both species benefit |