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ecosystems
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| change | When something becomes different over time |
| competition | When two or more populations use the same resource,such as the same food source |
| consumer population(heterotrophs) | A population that eats organisms from another population |
| ecologist | A scientist who studies the interactions of organisms from another population |
| ecosystem | All the living and nonliving things interacting in a particular area |
| energy | The ability to make things move or change |
| energy storage molecule (glucose) | A molecule that organisms can use to release the energy they need to survive |
| food web | A model that shows what eats what in an ecosystem. |
| organisms | living things,such as plants animals and bacteria |
| population | A group of the sam type of organism living in the same area |
| reoroduction | The process of creating offsping |
| Stability | when something stays mostly the same over time |
| resource population | A population that is eaten by organisms from another population |
| producer population | A poulation that is able to make their own food through phohotosynthesis |
| decomposer | An organism that is able to break down other organisms and waste |
| parasitism | Interaction in which one organism benefits and the other is harmed |
| mutalism | Interaction between 2 organism where they both benefit |
| commensalism | interaction in which one organism benefits and the other is not impacted |
| abiotic | Not living parts of the environment |
| Biotic | Living parts of environment |