Energy in the Ecosystem

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  1. 3. The practice of living as a parasite in or on another organism.
  2. 5. Relationships are a special type of interaction between species. Sometimes beneficial, sometimes harmful, these relationships are essential to many organisms and ecosystems, and they provide a balance that can only be achieved by working together.
  3. 6. The specific area where an organism inhabits. (ecology) The role or function of an organism or species in an ecosystem.
  4. 9. An autotrophic organism capable of producing its own food through photosynthesis. Turning sunlight into energy.
  5. 10. Organism that is eaten by a predator.
  6. 12. The breakdown of dead materials into carbon dioxide and water
  7. 15. Is the way two organisms of different species exist in a relationship in which each individual benefits from the activity of the other.
  8. 16. Living components of the ecosystem
  9. 18. Organisms that obtain their energy by consuming otherorganisms.
  10. 19. A consumer that eats plants.
  11. 21. Organisms that eat animals ONLY. Ex. Cats/T. Rex
  12. 22. The movement of nitrogen from the nonliving environment into living organisms and back again.
  13. 24. Hunts other animals for food
  14. 25. Biomes are large geographical areas that have similar climates and climax communities (a stable community with a balance of abiotic and biotic factors)
  15. 26. Resources or environmental conditions that limit the growth, abundance, or distribution of an organism or a population of organisms in an ecosystem.
  16. 27. The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
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  1. 1. Organisms that make their own food for Energy. Ex. Plants.
  2. 2. Also called biological community, in biology, an interacting group of various species in a common location.
  3. 4. An organism that eats producers or other organisms for energy
  4. 7. An organism that gets energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms or animal wastes and consuming or absorbing the nutrients
  5. 8. Non-living components of the ecosystem (soil, water, air)
  6. 9. A particular section, group, or type of people or animals living in an area or country.
  7. 11. Includes the populations in a community and how they react with each other (biotic factors) as well as the nonliving parts of the environment (abiotic factors)
  8. 13. Organism that eats both plants and animals for energy. Ex. Humans/Chickens
  9. 14. The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
  10. 17. In biology, a relationship between individuals of two species in which one species obtains food or other benefits from the other without either harming or benefiting the other organism.
  11. 20. A biological species in an environment is the maximum population size of the species that the environment can sustain indefinitely, given the food, habitat, water, and other necessities available in the environment.
  12. 23. The movement of carbon from the nonliving environment into living things and then back into the living environment.