Science Words 091206
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- ecosystem
- all living and nonliving things that interact in an area
- habitat
- the place where an organism lives and provides what it needs to live
- community
- all the different populations that live together in an enviroment
- limiting factor
- an enviromental factor that prevents populations from increasing
- adaptation
- the behavior and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live soccessfully in their enviroment
- niche
- an organisms particular role in an ecosystem, or how it makes its living
- competition
- the struggle between 2 organisms for a limited resource in a habitat
- migration
- movement of orgenisms
- metamorphosis
- a change in the form and often habitats of an animal during normal developement after the embryonic stage
- biodiversity
- the number of differentspecies in an area
- food chain
- a series of events in which one organism eats another
- food web
- the pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem