McCoy Goforth
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- study of the interactions that take place among organisms and between organisms and the physical features of the enviroment
- ecology
- largest number of individuals an enviroment can support and maintain over a long period of time
- carrying capacity
- both organisms benefit
- mutualism
- part of the earth that supports organisms and is made up of all the earths ecosystem
- biosphere
- living things that kill and eat other living things
- predator
- living or once livng organisms in the enviroment
- biotic factors
- organisms eaten by the predator
- prey
- groups of populations that interact with each other ina given area and depend on each other for food, sheltr, and for other needs
- community
- model used to describe a series of overlapping food cains
- food web
- one organism benefits another is not harmed
- commesalism
- any biotic or abiotic factor that restricts the number of individuals in a population
- limiting factor
- any close relationship between two or more different species
- symbiosis
- consists of a biotic communiy and the abiotic factors that affect it
- ecosytem
- one organisms benefits another is harmed
- parasitism
- organisms that obtain energy whe they feedon producers or other consumers
- consumer
- model that describes the feeding relationships in a community show how energy in the form of food passes from organism to another
- food chain
- organisms that capture energy from the sun
- producer