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book 3 lession 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| organism | |
| habitat | |
| biotic factor | A living or once living part of an habitat. |
| abiotic factor | A nonliving part of an organism's habitat. |
| species | |
| population | All the members of one species living in the same area. |
| community | All the different populations that live together in particular areas. |
| ecosystem | The community of oraganisms that live in a particular area along with nonliving environment. |
| ecology | The study of how organisms interact with each other and their environment. |
| birth rate | The numbers of births per 1,000 individuals for a certain time period. |
| death rate | The number of deaths per 1,000 individuals for a certain time period. |
| immigration | |
| emigration | Movement of individuals out of a population area. |
| population density | The number of indivduals in a area of specific sizes. |
| limiting factor | |
| carrying capacity | |
| natural selection | The process orgasims take to that best adapt to there environment. |
| adaption | A inherited behavior or physical characteristic that helps an orgasm survive and reproduce in its environment. |
| niche | How a orgasm makes its living and interacts. |
| competition | The struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited recourses in the same place at the same time. |
| predation | An interaction in which one organism kills another for food or nuterance. |
| predator | The organism that does the killing in a predation interaction. |
| prey | An organism that killed and eaten by another oragism in a predation interaction. |
| symbiosis | A relationship when species live closely together. |
| mutualism | |
| commensalism | A type of symbolizes between two species in which one specie benefits an the other specie is neither helped nor harmed. |
| parasitism | A type of symbolsis in which one organism lives with on or in a host and harms it |
| parasite | The organism that benifits by living with on or in a host in a parasite interaction. |
| host | An orgasims that that parisites the living sources of energy. |
| succession | The series of prediction changes that happen in a community over time. |
| primary succession | The series of changes that accure when the seasons change. |
| pioneer species | The first species to populate an area during succession. |
| secondary succession | The series of changes that happen when the ecosystem has been distributed. |