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Ecosystems
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Change | when something becomes different over time |
| Competition | when two ore more populations use the same resourse |
| Consumer population | population that eats organisms from a nother popuation |
| Ecologist | a scientist who studies the interactions of organisms with eachother and their enviorment |
| Ecosystem | all of the living and nonliving things interactioning in a particular area |
| energy | the ablility to make things move |
| 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 | the process of creating offspring |
| resource population | a population that is eaten by organisms by another population |
| stability | when something stays mostly the same over time |
| autotrophs | a population that is able to make their own food through photosynthesis |
| decomposer | an organisms that is able to break down other organisms and waste |
| parasitism | interaction in which one organism benefits and 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 |