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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 with each other and their environment |
| ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things interacting in a particular area |
| energy | the ability to make things more or chang |
| 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 eosystem |
| indirect effect | the results of one cause leading to an effect that causes one or more other effects |
| organisms | lining things such a 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 populaion | a population that is eaten by organisms from another population |
| stability | when something stays mostly the same over time |
| producer population autotrophs | a population that is able to ,ake their own food through photppsunthesis |
| decomposer | an organism that is able to break down other organisms and waste |
| parasitism | interaction in which one organsim benefits and the other is harmed |
| mutualism | 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 the environment |