organism relationships
both are benefited
what is mutualism?
-lipids (fats)
-carbohydrates
-proteins
-nucleic acids
what are the four main types of macromolecules?
rain, snow, sleet, hail
what is precipitation?
an individual that carries out the life process
what is an organism?
-has cells or a cell
-has to grow and develop
-use energy
-has to reproduce
how do we define life?
one benefits and the other is harmed
what is parasitism?
building blocks of dna and rna
what are nucleic acids?
a liquid turning into a gas
what is evaporation?
all the same species in a specific area
what is a population?
makes their own food from the sun and/or inorganic materials
what are autotrophs/producers?
one benefits ad the other is indifferent
what is commensalism?
they do not dissolve in water (hydrophobic)
what are lipids?
how water evaporates from the surface of the earth, rises into the atmosphere, cools and condenses into rain or snow in clouds, and falls again to the surface as precipitation
what is the water cycle?
all different species in an ecosystem
what is a community?
requires other organisms for energy
what are consumers/heterotrophs?
one species consumes another for energy
what is predation?
organic compounds composed of amino acids
what are proteins?
water is soaked into the roots of plants
what is evapotranspiration/ transpiration?
all biotic and abiotic factors in a specific area
what is an ecosystem?
an individual's role in an environment
what is a niche?
the total varsity or organisms in the biosphere
what is biodiversity?
most common of the four macromolecules
what is carbohydrates?
conversion of a solid to a gas with no liquid starch
what is sublimation?
the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the earth or another planet occupied by living organisms
what is a biosphere?
an individual's physical environment
what is a habitat?