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Living Things &
living things and their environment
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| organism | living thing |
| habitat | an environment the provides the things the organism needs |
| biotic factor | living parts of a habitat |
| abiotic | nonliving parts of a habitat |
| population | all the members of one species in a particular area |
| species | single kind of organism that can mate |
| community | all the different populations that live together in an area |
| ecosystem | the community of organisms that live in a particular area along wtih their nonliving surroundings |
| Ecology | the study of how living things interact with each other and with their environment |
| photosynthesis | plants use water, sunlight and carbon dioxide to make food |