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 |