Chapter 8
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| organism | a living thing
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| habitat | an environment that provides everything a specific species need to live, grow and reproduce
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| biotic factor | the parts that were alive at one time in a habitat
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| abiotic factor | the nonliving parts of a habitat
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| species | a group of organisms that can mat and reproduce and their offsrping can as well
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| population | all of the members of one species in an area
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| community | all the different populations in an area
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| ecology | the study of how organisms react with their environment
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| ecosystem | all the living and non living things in an area
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| birth rate | the number of births per 1000 individuals of a certain time period
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| death rate | the number of deaths per 1000 individuals of a certain time period
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| immigration | when an organism moves into a population
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| emigration | when an organism moves out of a population
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| population density | the number of animals in an area of a specific size
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| limiting factors | an environmental factor that cause a population to stop growing
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| carrying capacity | the largest population an area can support
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| natural selection | a characteristic that makes a species better in a specific environment that is passed down through generations
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| adaption | the behaviors and physical characteristics that allow organisms to successfully survive in their habitat
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| niche | the role of an organism in its habitat
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| competition | the struggle of species to survive with the same needs
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| predation | when one organism kills another for food or nutrients
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| predator | the organism doing the killing
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| prey | the organism being killed
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| symbiosis | any relationship between to organisms
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| mutualism | both species benifit
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| commensalism | one is not harmed and one benifits
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| parasitsm | one species benefits and the other is harmed
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| parasite | the organism that benefits from parsitism
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| host | the organism that the parasite lives in or on
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| succesion | the series of predictable changes in a community over time
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| primary succession | succession without soil
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| secondary succession | succession with soil existing
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| pioneer species | the fist species to populate an area
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