click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
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 Interactions of organisms with each other and their enviorment |
| 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 |
| indirect effect | the result of one cause leading to an effect that causes one or more other effects |
| organisms | living things such as plants animals and bacteria |
| Population | a group of the same type of organism living in the same area |
| Reproduction | 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 (autotrophs) | population that is able to make their own food through photosynthesis |
| Decomposer | an organism that is able to break down other organisms and waste |
| paristism | 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 parts of the environment |
| biotic | living parts of the environment |