all the living and nonliving things that interact in a particular area | ||
any living thing | ||
the place where an organism lives and provides the things and organism needs | ||
the living parts of an ecosystem | ||
the nonliving parts of an ecosystem | ||
all the members of one species in a particular area | ||
a closely related population of animals that work together for the benifit of the group | ||
all the different populations that live together in an area | ||
the study of how living things interact with one another and the environment | ||
the number of individuals in a specific area | ||
an approximation of a number, based on reasonable assumptions | ||
the number of births in a population in a certain amount of time | ||
the number of deaths in a population in a certain amount of time | ||
moving to a population | ||
leaving a population | ||
an environmental factor that prevents a population from increasing | ||
the largest population that an environment can support | ||
autotrophs that produce food and store energy | ||
heterotrophs that obtain food and energy be eating other organisms | ||
heterotrophs that obtain energy by breaking down the wastes and remains of other organisms | ||
a diagram made by ecologists to show the flow of energy from organism to organism | ||
the total amount of living matter, and remains of dead organisms, in an area | ||
a diagram that shows all the food chains that are connected | ||
the process of combining free nitrogen with other elements |
Science Unit 8 Ecosystems
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