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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Organism | living thing |
| Resources | Food,water,shelter |
| Habitat | things a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce is called a habitat |
| Biotic factors | Parts of a habitat that are or were once alive |
| Abiotic factors | Are the nonliving |
| Population | All the members of one species living in a particular area are referred to as a population |
| Community | All the different populations that live together in area make up a community |
| Ecosystem | The community of organisms that lives in a particular area, along with the nonliving environment make up an ecosystem |
| Limiting factor | Environment factor that causes a population to stop growing or to decrease in size such as fatal disease infecting organism, organism |
| Abiotic factor | Nonliving parts of an organisms habitat |
| Ecology | The study of how organisms interact with each other and with their environment |
| Species | Is a group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring |
| Population density | Factors of growth |
| Limiting factor | An environment factor that causes a population to stop growing or to decrease in size, such as a fatal disease infecting organisms, organism |
| Carrying impact | The largest population that an area can support |
| Niche | The role of an organism in its habitat |
| Interactions | Takes place among organisms every day |
| Competition | The struggles between these organisms to survive as they use the same limited resources |
| Predation | An interaction in which one organism kills another for food or nutrients |
| Symbiosis | A third type of interaction among organisms as in any relationship in which two species live together |
| Commensalism | Is a relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed |
| Mutualism | Which is a relain which both species benefits |
| Parasitism | A relationship that involves one organism living with, on, or inside another organism and harming it |
| Role | Based on the way organism obtain food and interact with other organisms |
| Producer | An organism that can make its own food |
| Consumer | Obtains energy by feeding on other organisms |
| Decomposes | Break down biotic wastes and dead organisms |
| Food chain | A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy and nutrients |
| Food web | Consist of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem |
| Energy pyramid | The amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web |
| Chlorophyll | Absorbs ligh, much like cells in solar panels do |
| Autotroph | An organism that makes its own food |
| Heterotroph | An organism that has to get its food form a source and unable to make its own food |