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A community of organisms and their abiotic, or nonliving, environment.
What is Ecosystem?
An organism that eats other organisms or organic matter.
What is Consumer?
A set of interacting parts that work together.
What is System?
The tendency of a community to maintain a relatively constant structure.
What is Stability?
The movement of energy from one object or place to another.
What is Energy Transfer?
A gradual process of change and replacement in a community.
What is Ecological Succession?
An index that combines the number and relative abundance of different species in a community.
What is Species Diversity?
The path of energy transfer through various stages as a result of the feeding patterns of a series of organisms.
What is Food Chain?
A diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem.
What is Food Web?
change over time in a community in an area that previously did not support life NO SOIL REMAINS.
What is Primary Succession?
change over time as a community replaces another that has been partially or totally destroyed, but the soil and other supports for life remain. SOIL REMAINS.
What is Secondary Succession?
The number and variety of organisms in a given area during a specific period of time.
What is Biodiversity?
The amount of variation in the genetic material within all members of a population.
What is Genetic Diversity?
A state where two or more organisms are dependent on each other.
What is Interdependence?
Ecological relationship in which two or more organisms depend on the same limited resource.
What is Competition?