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Ecosystems
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Change | when something becomes different over time |
| Competition | one two more populations use the same resource such as the same food source |
| Consumer population | a population that eats organisms from another population |
| Ecologist | a scientist who studies the interactions of organisms with each other and their environment |
| Ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things interacting in a particular area |
| Energy | the ability to make things move or change |
| energy storage molecule | a molecule that organisms can use to release the energy they need to survive |
| Food web | a model that shows what eats what ecosystem |
| Indirect Effect | the result of one cause leading to an effect that causes one or more other effects |
| Organisms | pooping things such as plants animals and bacteria |
| Population | a group of the same type of organism living in the same area |
| Reproduction | the process of creating offspring |
| Resource Population | a population that is eaten by organisms from another population |
| Stability | when something stays mostly the same over time |
| Producer Population | a population that is able to make their own food through photosynthesis |
| decomposer | An organism that is able to break down other organisms and waste |
| parasitism | interaction in which one organism benefits in the other is harmed |
| mutualism | interaction between two organisms where they both benefit |
| commensalism | interaction in which one organism benefits and the other is not impacted |
| abiotic | not living in parts of the environment |
| biotic | living parts of the environment |