science 24-3 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Producers | organisms that use an outside energy source like the sun to make every rich molecules - green plants |
Consumers | organism can't make it's own energy rich molecules - gets energy by eating other organisms - lions and tigers |
Decomposers | organisms who break down once living matter - millipedes |
Niche | the role an organism has in it's environment - food, shelter, find its mate, care for young, avoids danger |
Habitat | the place in which an organism lives |
Ecosystem | all of the organisms that live in an area and the non-living features in their environment |
Community | all of the populations of all the species living in an area at the same time |
Population | all of the members of the one species that live in an area at one time - population of the USA |
Biotic Potential | the highest rate of reproduction under idea circumstances |
Growth Limits | when growth of a population is limited by resources individuals of that species compete for - shelter, food territory, and water |
Competition | examples of things organisms compete for - food, shelter, territory, and water |
Limiting Factors | anything that restricts the number of individuals in a population - same as growth limits plus predators and disease because this includes Growth Factors plus death factors |
Carrying Capacity | (remember the analogy with an elevator's capacity) - the largest number individuals of one species that an ecosystem can support over time |
Predator and Prey | one species eats member of another species for food. when a creature hunts for creature who belongs to another species and both creatures can move. when the food that is being eaten can't move (grass, mushrooms), it is merely another feeding relationship |
Symbiotic Relationships | "scorecard relationships" in which both members are alive |
Commensalism | a relationship in which the members of one species benefits and the other species is unaffected |
Mutualism | relationships in which member of both species benefit |
Parasitism | a relationship in which the member of one species benefits and the member of the other species is harmed |
Neutralism | no effect on either species |
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