| A | B |
|---|
| habitat | an environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce |
| ecology | the study of how living things interact with each other and their environment |
| ecosystem | all the living and non-living things in a particular area |
| biotic factors | living parts of a habitat |
| abiotic factors | non-living parts of a habitat |
| limiting factor | an environmental factor that causes a population to decrease |
| carrying capacity | the largest population that an area can support |
| adaptation | behaviors and physical characteristics that allow organisms to live successfully in their environment |
| natural selection | organisms that are best-suited to their environment will survive and reproduce |
| predator | the organisms that do the killing |
| prey | the organism that is killed |
| species | a group of orgqanisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other to produce offspring |
| population | all the members of one species in an area |
| community | all the different populations that live together in an area |
| five abiotic factors | water, sunlight, oxygen, temperature, soil |
| four limiting factors | food, water, space, weather |
