| A | B |
|---|
| ecology | study between living things & environ |
| limiting factor | restricts population |
| carrying capacity | largest # of induviduals a species can support |
| biotic potential | highest rate of production |
| exponential growth | number of adults grows so does births |
| decomposer | eats dead matter |
| niche | organisms role or purpose |
| food chain | feeding relationship in an ecosystem |
| food web | totality of interacting food chains in an ecological community |
| symbiosis | close rel betwenn species |
| mutualism | symbiotic rel where both species benefit |
| commensalism | symbiotic rel where organism benefts 7 the other is not affected |
| cooperation | working together in a common effort |
| abiotic factors | non-living part of an ecosystem |
