Vocabulary 1
What is an organism?
An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce
What is a habitat?
food, water, shelter, and other things from its environment that an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce
What are resources?
The parts of a habitat that are or were once alive and that interact with an organism
What are biotic factors?
the nonliving parts of an organism's habitat
What are abiotic factors?
a group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
What is a species?
All the members of one species living in a particular area
What is a population?
number of individuals over unit area
All the different populations that live together in an area
What is a community?
The community of organisms that lives in a particular area, along with the nonliving environment
An environmental factor that causes a population to stop growing or to decrease in size, such as a fatal disease infecting organisms
What is a limiting factor?