Vocabulary 1
All living and nonliving things
Ecosystem
Any resource that restricts the growth of populations
What is a limiting factor?
Organisms that use the Sun's energy to make sugar and oxygen
Water, Temperature, Weather, Soil Type, Shelter and Sunlight are examples of this
What is a limiting factor?
Adjustments to internal or external physical physical structures
What are structural adaptations?
Includes all members of a single species in an area at a given time
What is a population?
The physical place where an organism lives and hunts for food
What is a habitat?
Any animal that eats plants or other animals
What is a consumer?
A non living thing
What is an abiotic factor?
An adjustment in an organism's behavior
What is a behavioral adaptation?
Animals that eat other animals
What is a carnivore?
What is mutualism?
Animals that eat producers
What are herbivores?
The special role that an organism plays in a community
What is a niche?
What is migration?
Animals that break down dead or decaying plant and animal material
What is a decomposer?
The matching of the color, shape and texture of an environment
What is protective resemblance?
The greatest number of individuals within a population that an ecosystem can support
Carrying Capacity
A symbiotic relationship that benefits one organism without harming the other
What is commesalism?
A period of inactivity during cold weather
What is hibernation?
A network of food chains that have some links in common
What is a food web?
An adaptation in which an animal is protected against predators by its resemblance to an unpleasant animal
What is mimicry?
Animals that eat the remains of dead animals they did not hunt
What are scavengers?
A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is harmed?
What is parasitism?
A type of camouflage in which the color of an animal helps it blend in with its background
What is protective coloration?