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Vocabulary and pictures. A group of organisms of one kind that live together in one location.
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Transcript of Vocabulary and pictures. A group of organisms of one kind that live together in one location.
ADAPTATIONS AND CHANGES IN ECOSYSTEMS
Vocabulary and pictures
DEFINITION A group of organisms
of one kind that live together in one
location.
POPULATION
DEFINITION A group of
populations that live together.
COMMUNITY
DEFINITION A role or job an
organism has in an ecosystem.
NICHE
DEFINITION A kind of contest among populations
with the same niche.
COMPETITION
DEFINITION A trait or
characteristic that helps an organism
to survive.
ADAPTATION
DEFINITION Body structures
that help an animal to survive.
PHYSICAL ADAPTATION
DEFINITION
Actions that help an animal
to survive.
BEHAVIORAL ADAPTATION
DEFINITION The movement of animals from one
area to another in a regular cycle.
MIGRATION
DEFINITION
The death of all the organisms of
a species.
EXTICTION
DEFINITION Conditions in an
ecosystem that keep a population from growing beyond a
certain size.
LIMITING FACTORS
DEFINITION An animal that kills
and eats other animals.
PREDATOR
DEFINITION An animal that is killed and eaten by
another animal (predator).
PREY
DEFINITION
Helpful
BENEFICIAL
DEFINITION Does not help or
harm; has no effect on
NEUTRAL
DEFINITION
Harmful
DETRIMENTAL