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Ecosystem
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Biotic factors | The parts of a habitat that are or were once alive and interact with an organism |
| Abiotic factors | The non living parts of an organism’s habitat |
| Species | A group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce |
| Ecology | The study of how organisms interact with each other and their environment is called ecology |
| Ecosystem | The community of organisms that lives in a particular area along with the non living environment |
| Community | All the different populations that live together in an area |
| Organism | A living thing |
| Habitat | An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce |
| Population | All the members of one species living in a particular area |
| Producer | An organism that can make its own food |
| Consumer | Obtains energy by feeding on other organisms |
| Carnivore | An animal that eats other animals |
| Scavenger | A carnivore that feeds on the dead bodies of dead organisms |
| Omnivore | Eats both plants and animals |
| Decomposer | Breaks down biotic waist and dead organisms returning the raw materials to the ecosystem |
| Food chain | A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy and nutrients |
| Food web | Many overlapping food chains in a 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 |
| Predation | An interaction in which one organism kills animals for food or nutrients |
| Symbiosis | Any relation ship in which two species live closely together |
| Commensalism | A relationship in one species benefits and the other is neither helped or harmed |
| Mutualism | A relationship in which both species benefit. |
| Parasitism | A relationship that involves one organism living with, on, or inside another organism and harming it |
| Niche | Includes how a organism obtains its food, type of food the organism eats, and what other organisms it eats |
| Competition | The struggle between organisms to survive as they use the same limited resources |