Creating your Own Pond

Definitions

succession

• A series of progressive changes in an animals or plants life where the numbers of each organisms are in balance with one another

• Prevents over or under population of one organism

Succession Example

Succession

Community

• All living things in an area; • Living component of an ecosystem

Community

Population

• Members of each species in a community

abiotic

• Nonliving things within an ecosystem• Ex. Rock, dirt

frond

• The leaves of an aquatic plant, such as a lemna

niche

• A specific job of an organism within an ecosystem to keep it functioning.

• Ex. This bird keeps the population of frogs down by eating them

biotic

• Having to do with living things