Unit 1
A living thing
What is an organism?
The amount of deaths in a population
What is death rate?
Changing one's traits to be better suited to one's surroundings
What is adaptation?
A nonliving part of an ecosystem
Moving into a specific area
What is immigration?
A relationship between organisms that benefits one and harms the other
What is parasitism?
All of the different species of an ecosystem
What is a community?
The maximum amount of individuals in a certain amount of space
What is carrying capacity?
An organism being harmed by a parasite
What is a host?
An organism's role in their ecosystem
What is niche?
A community with biotic and abiotic factors
What is an ecosystem?
Leaving a certain area
What is emigration?
The process in which individuals that have certain desirable traits are more likely to survive than those without those traits
What is natural selection?
The science of ecosystems
What is ecology?
The number of individuals in a certain amount of space
What is population density?
The struggle over something
What is competition?
A relationship between organisms that benefits one and has no effect on the other
What is commensalism?