Week 1
The process by which plants, algae, and some bacteria use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to create oxygen and energy in the form of sugar. It allows these organisms to make their own food
What is Photosynthesis
A relationship between two organisms where both benefit from living together
What is Mutualism
The largest number of living things that an area can support
What is Carrying Capacity?
A super-important species that holds the ecosystem together
What is Keystone species?
Make their own food using sunlight.
What is producers
A relationship where two or more organisms struggle for the same resources (food, water, space)
Competition
Something that stops a population from growing too big.
What is Limiting Factor?
Domino effect of changes throughout a food chain
What is Trophic Cascade?
Eat other living things for energy.
What is consumers
A relationship where one organism (predator) hunts and eats another organism (prey)
Predation
The non-living things in an environment.
What is Abiotic?
The variety of all living things in an area
What is Biodiversity?
Break down dead matter and waste to return nutrients to the soil.
What is decomposers
A relationship where one organism (parasite) lives on or in another organism (host) and harms it while benefiting itself
Parasitism
All the living things in an environment.
What is Biotic?
The way living things depend on each other.
What is Interdependence?
is the movement of energy from one object or system to another. It describes the relocation of energy—such as heat, light, or motion—across space.
What is Energy Transfer
The specific role and position an organism has in its environment, including what it eats, where it lives, and how it interacts with other organisms
What is Niche
Anything in nature that living things need to survive.
What is resource?
The most reliable information that proves something is true.
What is the Strongest Evidence?