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Ecology Terms
12&3
Question | Answer |
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Ecology | The study of interactions among organisms and its environment. |
Abiotic Factor | Nonliving organisms in the environment. |
Biotic Factor | Living or once living. |
Population | All living humans in the same time. |
Community | Living humans interacting with each other. |
Ecosystem | Made up of a community of living organisms |
Biosphere | Part of earth that supports life. |
Population Density | Number of individuals in a population that occupies and are of limited size. |
Limiting Factor | Any biotic or abiotic factor that limits the number of individuals in an population. |
Symbiosis | Any close interaction among two or more different species, including mutualism,commenalism,and parasitism. |
Niche | Role of an organisms job in its ecosystem. |
Habitat | Place where an organism lives. |
Food Chain | A simple way of showing hoe energy passes from one organism to another. |
Food web | model that shows how energy from food is moved through a community. |
Water Cycle | Continues cycle of water molecules on as they rise into the atmosphere. |