Biology 13&14 Vocab Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
abiotic | nonliving factor in an ecosystem, such as moister, temperature, wind, sunlight, soil, and minerals. |
biodiversity | variety of life within an area. |
biogeochemical cycle | movement of a chemical through the biological and geological, or living and nonliving, parts of an ecosystem. |
biomass | total dry mass of all organisms in a given area. |
biome | regional or global community of organisms characterized by the climate conditions and plant communities that thrive there. |
biotic | living things, such as plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria. |
community | collection of all the different populations that live in one area. |
competition | ecological relationship in which two organisms attempt to obtain the same resource. |
consumer | organism that obtains its energy and nutrients by eating other organisms. |
ecological niche | all of the physical, chemical, and biological factors that a species needs to survive, stay healthy, and reproduce in an ecosystem. |
ecology | study of the interactions among living things and their surroundings. |
ecosystem | collection of organisms and nonliving things, such as climate, soil, water, and rocks, in an area. |
emigration | movement of individuals out of a population. |
generalist | species that does not rely on a single source of prey. |
habitat | combined biotic and abiotic factors found in the area where an organism lives. |
immigration | movement of individuals into a population. |
limiting factor | environmental factor that limits the growth and size of a population. |
monitor | observe and check the progress or quality of something over a period of time |
pioneer species | organism that is the first to live in a previously uninhabited area. |
predation | process by which one organism hunts and kills another organism for food. |
prior | existing or coming before in time, order, or importance. |
producer | organism that obtains its energy from abiotic sources, such as sunlight or inorganic chemicals. |
revise | to alter something. |
significance | the meaning to be found in words or events. |
specialist | consumer that eats only one type of organism. |
succession | sequence of biotic changes that regenerate a damaged community or start a community in a previously uninhabited area. |
symbiosis | ecological relationship between members of at least two different species that live in direct contact with one another. |
trace | find or discover by investigation. |
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