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Ecology Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Ecosystem | interacting populations of organisms with biotic and abiotic factors |
Population | all the members of the same group of organisms living in a particular area at a particular time |
Predator | an animal that hunts and eats other animals |
Prey | an animal that is hunted and eaten by other animals |
Limiting Factors | needs that must be met for organisms in all ecosystems such as food and water; they limit the amount of organisms that can live in an area |
Abiotic | nonliving limiting factors (ex: temperature and water) |
Biotic | living factors in an environment; affect an organism's survival and population |
Competition | when more than one individual or population compete for the same limited resource; only the organisms that get the needed resources will survive. |
Niche | an organism's role in an ecosystem |
Carrying Capacity | the maximum number of organisms that can be maintained in an ecosystem |
Interdependence | how biotic and abiotic factors compete and depend on each other in an ecosystem |