Ecosystem

Ecosystem

A community of organisms and their abiotic environment

Organism

A living thing

Habitat

Place where an organism lives

Biotic factor

Living parts of a habitat

Abiotic factors

Non living parts of a habitat

Species

Group of organisms that meet and reproduce

Population

All members of one species in a particular area

Community

All different population that live in an area

Biodiversity

The variety of organisms in an given area

Succession

The replacement of one type of community by another at a single location over a period of time

Climate

The average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time

Biome

A large region characterized by a specific type of climate and certain types of plants and animal communities 2 key factors that determines the biome is temperature and precipitation

Limiting factor

An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease

Mutualism

Both species benefit

Commensalism

One species benefit and the other is neither helped nor harmed

Parasitism

One species is benefit and the other is harmed doesn't kill because it needs the host to live

Pioneer species

The very first Organism that inhabit an area

Symbiosis

A relationship in which two different organisms live in close association with each other

Niche

The unique position occupied by a species, both in terms of its physical use of its habitat and its function within an ecological community

Fundamental niche

The largest ecological niche where an Organism or species can live without competition

Realized niche

The actual niche species occupies in the community

Competitive exclusion

The exclusion of one species by another due to competition

Keystone species

A species that is critical to the functioning of the ecosystem in which it lives because it affects the survival and abundance of many other species in its community

Greenhouse effect

The process through which heat is trapped near Earth's surface by substances known as greenhouse gases

Exponential Groth

When population increase by a certain factor in each successive time period.

Logistical Growth

When population starts with a minimum and then reaches the maximum depending on the carrying capacity.

Respiration

The exchange of oxygen to carbon dioxide.

Producer

Autotrophs that make their own food.

Consumer

Heterotrophs that eat food.