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Science Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| The total number of organisms within a specific area | Density |
| The maximum number of offspring each member of the population can produce | Reproduce potential |
| A group of organisms, that are the same species, living in the same place at the same time | Population |
| The arrangement of individuals within a particular space, could be even, clumped, or random | Dispersion |
| The birth rate minus the death rate | Growth rate |
| A resource that is consumed as quickly as the ecosystem produces it | Limiting resource |
| The average time it takes one organisms in the population to reach an age where it reproduces | Generation time |
| When a population grows faster and faster, increasing by the same factor in each successive time period | Exponential growth |
| The population size where death rates equal birth rates | Carrying capacity |
| The fastest rate a population can grow; limited by the reproductive potential | Biotic potential |
| A relationship that negatively effects both individuals as they are trying to use the same resource | Competition |
| When one species is eliminated from the habitat by another species that wants the same resource | Competition exclusion |
| A symbiotic relationship where both organisms involved benefit | Mutualism |
| A relationship when two organisms live in close association with each other and at least one usually benefits | Symbiosis |
| A symbiotic relationship where one organism is harmed and the other benefits; typically the organism that benefits lives in or on the organism that is harmed | Parasitism |
| An interaction between organisms that result in one organism eating the other | Predation |
| The organisms that gets eaten by another organism | Prey |
| The range of conditions in which a species can survive | Niche |
| A symbiotic relationship where one organisms benefits and the other is unaffected | Commensalism |
| The organism that each another organism | Predator |