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The Enviorment
Lessons 1-3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Organism | A living thing. |
| habitat | An enviornment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live and grow. |
| biotic factor | A living or once living part of an organism's habitat. |
| abiotic factor | A nonliving part of an organism's habitat. |
| species | A group of similar organisms that can mate with each other and produce. |
| population | All the members of one species living in the same area. |
| community | All the different populations that live together in a particular area. |
| ecosystem | The community of organisms that live in a particular area , a long with their nonliving enviornment. |
| ecology | The study of how organisms interact with each other and their enviornment. |
| birth rate | The number of births per 1000 individuals for a certain time period. |
| death rate | The number per 1000 individuals for a certain time period. |
| immigration | Movement of individuals into a population's area. |
| emigration | Movement of individuals out of a population's area. |
| population density | The number of individuals in an area of a specific size. |
| limiting factor | A enviornmental factor that causes a population to decrease in size. |
| carrying capacity | The largest population that a particular enviornment can support. |
| natural selection | The process by which an organism that are best adaptive to their enviornment are most likely to survive and produce. |
| adaptation | An inherited behavior of physical characteristics that help and organism survive and reproduce in its environment. |
| niche | How an organism makes its living and interacts with the biotic and abiotic factors in it's habitat. |
| competition | The struggle between organisms to survive. |
| predation | An interaction in which one organism kills another for food or nutrients. |
| predator | The organism that does killing in a interaction. |
| prey | An organism that in killed and eaten by another. |
| symiosis | Any relationship in which two species live closely together and that benefits at least one of the species. |
| mutualism | A type of symiosis in which both species benefit from living together . |
| commensalism | A type of symbiosis between two species in which one species benefits and the other species in neither helped nor harmed. |
| parasitsm | A type of symbiosis in which one organism lives with, on, or in a relationship host and harms it. |
| parasite | The organism that benefits by living with, on, or in a host and harms it. |
| host | An organism that a parasite lives with in, or, on, and provides a source of energy or a suitable enviornment for the parasite to live. |