Groups
the same type of one animals ex. all the bunnies in an area
What is a population?
they eat animals, plants, and fungi
What are omnivores?
the range of the types of plants and animals in an area
what is biodiversity?
the animal that gets eaten
What is prey?
when a pack of animals finds their prey together
What is cooperative hunting?
the living and non-living things in an area
What is an ecosystem?
they eat meat
What are carnivores?
an organism that is a heterotroph and recycles nutrients back into the environment
What is a decomposer?
the animal hunting the other animal to eat
What is a predator?
when humans take too much of a resource and then it can't regrow
What is over-harvesting?
all the living things in an area: bacteria, animals, plants, fungi
What is biotic?
they eat plants
What are autotrophs?
an organisms specialized role in an ecosystem
ex. decomposers
what is niche?
when both organisms benefit from the relationship
What is mutualism?
when organisms have limited resources so the have to strive to get them before others
What is competition?
living things that do not naturally live in that habitat; they don't have predators and their population goes really high
What are invasive species?
They produce glucose through photosynthesis
What are producers or autotrophs?
the largest number of a population that the environment can handle without depleting it
What is carrying capacity?
when one animal is helped by a relationship and the other is harmed by it
What is parasitism?
When organisms work together, like bees
What is altruistic behavior?
the non-living things in an area - rocks, weather, altitude
What are abiotic things?
They eat other animals and canNOT make their own energy
What are heterotrophs or consumers?
Something that controls a population and brings it down, like drought, or space
What is a limiting factor?
When one organism is helped by a relationship and the other isn't helped or harmed; it doesn't really care
What is commensalism?
when animals work together to raise young and protect them by putting them in the middle of a group
What is herding?