Vocab for Suda's Science class chapter 10
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JackyMil13 on May 30, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 organism | living thing |
| habitat | an environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce |
| biotic factor | the living parts of a habitat |
| abiotic factor | the nonliving parts of an organism's habitat that include water, sunlight, oxygen, temperatures, and soil |
| photosynthesis | a process in which organisms use water along with sunlight and carbon dioxide to make their own food |
| species | a group of organisms that are phisically similar and can mate with each other and produce offsprings which and mate and produce offsprings as well |
| population | all the members of one species in a particular area |
| community | all the different populations that live together in an area |
| ecosystem | the community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with the nonliving surroundings |
| ecology | the study of how living things interact with each other and their environments |
| birth rate | number of births in a population in a certain amount of time |
| death rate | the number of deaths in a population in a certain amount of time |
| immigration | moving into a population |
| emigration | leaving a population |
| limiting factor | an environment factor that causes a population to stop growing |
| carrying capacity | the largest population that an area can support |
| producer | an organism that can make its own food |
| consumer | an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms |
| herbivore | eats plants |
| carnivore | eats meat |
| omnivore | eats both plants and meat |
| scavenger | a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms |
| decomposer | An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms |
| food chain | a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy |
| food web | the pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem |
| energy pyramid | a diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web |
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