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Ch.22 voc.
Populations&Community
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| All the living and non-living things that interact in an area | Ecosystem |
| The place where an organism lives and that provides the thingsthe organism needs | Habitat |
| A living part of an ecosystem | Biotic Factor |
| A nonliving part of an ecosystem | Abiotic Factor |
| All the members ofone speciesin a particular way | Population |
| The study of how living things interact with each other an their environment | Ecology |
| The number of individuals in a specific area | Population Density |
| An approximation of a number based on a reasonable asumptions | Estimate |
| The number of births in a population in a certain amount of time | Birth Rate |
| The number of deaths in a certain amount of time | Death Rate |
| Moving into a population | Immigration |
| leaving a population | Emigration |
| an environment factor that prevents a population from increasing | Limiting Factor |
| The largest population that an area can support | Carrying Campacity |
| An organism's particular role in an ecosystem, or how it makes its living | Niche |
| The struggle between organisms for the limited resorces in habitat | Competition |
| An interaction in which one organism hunts and kill another animal for food | Predation |
| A carnivore that hunts and kills other animals for food and has adaptions that help it capture the animals preys upon | Predator |
| An animal that a predator feeds upon | Prey |
| A close relationships between two organisms in which at least one of the organisms benifits | Symbiosis |
| Atype of symbiosis in which both partners benifit from living together | Mutualism |
| A relationship between two species in which one species benifits and the other is neither helped nor harmed | Commensalism |
| A relationship in which one organism lives on or inside another harms it | Parasitism |
| An organism that lives on or in host and causes harm to host | Parasite |
| An organism that provides a sorce of energy or suitable environment for a virus or for another organism to live | Host |