last MP2 test, ecosystems

Change

When something becomes different over time.

Competition

When two or more populations use the same resource, such as the same food source.

Consumer population

A population that eats organisms from another population.

Ecosystem

All the living and nonliving things interacting in a particular area.

Energy storage molecule

A molecule that organisms can use to release the energy needed to survive.

Food web

A model that shows what eats what in an ecosystem.

Indirect effect

The result of one cause leading to an effect that causes one or more other effects.

Population

A group of the same type of organism living in the same area.

Reproduction

The process of creating offspring.

Resource population

A population that is eaten by organisms from another population.

Sample

A small part that is meant to show what the whole is like.

Stability

When something stays mostly the same over time.