| A | B |
|---|
| producers | are able to make their own food |
| consumers | they depend on other organisms for food |
| carnivore | eats other animals |
| herbivore | only eats plants |
| omnivore | can eat plants and animals |
| scavengers | they feed on dead animals |
| decomposer | plants and animals that break down wastes and dead organisms |
| food chain | shows the relationship in a community by linking what the organisms eats with what eats the organism |
| food web | interconnected food chain |
| food web 2 | many sinple food chains come together to form a more complex food web. |
| energy pyramid | shows the laws of energy as it goes up the food chain |
| limiting factor | one or more resources becomes limited on supply. |
| carrying capacity | the largest population that a given enviorment can support it over a long period of time |
| competition | when two or more induvisuals or population try to use the same limited resouce like food, water, shelter, space, and sunlight. |
| predator | an organism that eats the pray |
| prey | the organism that is eaten |
| sybiotic relationship | some speices that have close, long term interactions with other speices |
| mutalism | a symbiotic relatioship in which both organisms benefit |
| commenslaism | a symbiotic relationship in which one prgansm beefits and the other isn't effeted |
| parastism | a symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other one is harmed |
| coevolution | a long-term change that takes place in two speices because of their close interactions with one another |
