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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| organism | a living thing |
| habitat | environment where an organism, population, or species lives, providing the essential resources—shelter, food, water, and space—required for survival and reproduction |
| biotic factor | a living or onec living part of a orgnisem |
| abiotic fator | a nonliving part of a organisms habiat |
| species | a grope of simer things |
| population | all the members of 1 groop |
| ecosestem | a dynamic community of living organisms (biotic) interacting with their non-living (abiotic) environment—such as sun, water, and soil—functioning together as a unit |
| ecoology | interactions between organisms and their environment, covering how biological, physical, and chemical components shape ecosystems |
| birth rate | the number of births per 1000 indivuals for a certain time period |
| death rate | a measure of the frequency of deaths within a specific population during a defined period, typically expressed as the number of deaths per 1,000 or 100,000 individuals per year |
| immigration | going from 1 place to a difrent |
| emigration | leving 1 place ot a nother |
| population dencity | the numbers of induvisuals |
| limiting factor | a envirmentel fator that causees populason to decreas |
| Carrying capasity | the maximum population size an environment can sustainably support without degrading the habitat |
| natural selection | the proses of when organisms survie difent areas |
| adaptation | an inherited behaver or physical characterisit |
| niche | how a orgnisem makes life |
| competition | the struggle of 2 or more orginesoms to survive |
| predation | a fundamental ecological interaction where one organism (predator) kills and consumes another (prey) |
| predator | an organism, typically an animal, that hunts, kills, and consumes other animals (prey) for energy and nutrients |
| prey | an animal hunted, killed, and eaten by another (the predator), or a person exploited/victimized. |
| symbiosis | a close, long-term interaction between different species, ranging from beneficial to harmful |
| mutualism | a symbiotic, (+/+) interaction |
| commensalism | a type of symbiotic relationship between two species |
| parasitim | a type of symbiotic relationship where one organism (the parasite) lives on or inside another (the host) |
| parasite | an organism that lives in or on another species (the host), |
| host | organization, or organism that receives or entertains guests, provides resources for an event, or supports a parasite |
| community | all different populasons |