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(Ecosystems)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Competition | occurs between two or more organisms who want the same resources |
| Limiting Factor | A factor that controls the size of a population |
| Give 3 examples of limiting factors: | space, water, and food |
| Ecological niche | The way that an organism carries out a role in an ecosystem |
| Population | all of the individuals of one species in an area |
| Biodiversity | the variety and number of species in a certain region |
| Alien Species | a species that does not naturally exist in an area but has been brought in. |
| Sustainability | the ability to endure and to support life |
| Tropic level | a feeding level in a food chain |
| Urban sprawl | The growth of a city into rural areas around its edges |
| Natality | the birth rate of a population |
| mortality | the death rate of a population |
| Preditor | An organism that gets its energy but eating other living things |
| Extinction | no longer living anywhere in the world |
| mutualism | a relationship between two species in which both benefit |
| equilibrium | a population trend in which the number of individuals is unchanging over a period oftime |
| immigration | the movement of organisms INTO an area |
| emigration | the movement of organisms OUT of an area |
| biotic | a living factor in an ecosystem |
| abiotic | a non-living factor in an ecosystem |
| parasitism | a relationship between two species in which one species feeds from the other. |
| prey | an organism that is eaten as food by a preditor |
| community | includes all living things and non-living things in an area |
| decomposer | an organism that gets its energy by breaking down dead organisms and waste |
| producer | an organism that gets its energy from the sun and can produce its own food |
| carnivore | an animal that eats only meat |
| herbivore | an animal that only eats plants |
| omnivore | an organism that eats plants and animals |
| consumer | an organism that kills and consumes other organisms |
| ecosystem | all of the organisms in a certain area |
| carrying capacity | the size of a population that can be supported in an ecosystem |
| aquatic ecosystem | an ecosystem in a body of water with communities of organisms |
| terrestrial ecosystem | is an ecosystem found only on landforms |
| lithosphere | the hardest part of the earths surface |
| hydrosphere | all of the water found on earth, lakes, oceans,and ground water |
| atmosphere | the layer of gases above you |
| biosphere | the regions of the earth where living organisms exist |
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