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Flashcards by Beatriz Mazo, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Beatriz Mazo
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| BIOTIC FACTORS | The living things that shape an ecosystem. Biotic Factors usually include: 1. Producers, plants, they convert the energy. 2. Consumers, animals, they depend upon producers for food. 3. Decomposers, fungi and bacteria, they break down chemicals from producers and consumers into simpler from which can be reused. |
| ABIOTIC FACTORS | The nonliving chemical and physical things of the environment that affect living organisms and the functioning of ecosystems. Abiotic components include physical conditions and nonliving resources that affect living organisms in terms of growth, maintenance, and reproduction. |
| ECOSYSTEM | Is a community of living things in a conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment, interacting as a system. |
| COMMUNITY | Is a group of populations that interact in the same geographic area at the same time. |
| BIOME | Is a formation of plants and animals that have common characteristics due similar climates and can be found over a range of continents. |
| POPULATION | Is a summation of all the organisms of the same group or species which live a particular geographical area. |
| ORGANISM | Is any living thing, such as an animal, plant, fungi, or bacteria. |
| HABITAT | Is an ecological or environmental area that is inhabited by abiotic factors |
| NICHE | Is the role of a living organism in his environment. |
| PREDATOR | Is an organism that feeds on another organism. |
| PREY | Is the organism that the predator eats. |
| SYMBIOSIS | Is a close interaction between two organisms. |
| MUTUALISM | Is the way two organisms of different species exist in a relationship which each individual benefits from the activity of the other. |
| PARASITISM | Is a class of relationship between species, where one species, the parasite, benefits at the expense of the other. |
| COMMENSALISM | Is a class of relationship between two organisms where one organism benefits from the other without affecting it. |
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