| 1 | organism | | _____ | model that links organisms by their feed relationships |
| 2 | population | | _____ | all organism and the part of Earth where they exist |
| 3 | community | | _____ | non-living things (moisture, temperature, wind, sun, soil, minerals) |
| 4 | ecosystem | | _____ | collection of organisms and non living things in an area |
| 5 | biome | | _____ | behaviors that improve the fitness for both individuals |
| 6 | biosphere | | _____ | any individual living thing |
| 7 | abiotic factors | | _____ | environmental resistance that affects a population regardless of population density |
| 8 | biotic factors | | _____ | collection of all the different populations that live in one area |
| 9 | biomass | | _____ | establishment and development of an ecosystem that was previously uninhabited |
| 10 | food chain | | _____ | regional or global community of organisms characterized by climate and plants that thrive there |
| 11 | food web | | _____ | one organism hunts and kills another organism for food |
| 12 | energy pyramid | | _____ | total dry mass of all organisms in a given area |
| 13 | mutualism | | _____ | relationship between two species in which one organism benefits by harming another organism |
| 14 | parasitism | | _____ | reestablishment of a damaged ecosystem in an area where he soil was left intact |
| 15 | commensalism | | _____ | ecological relationship in which two organisms attempt to obtain the same resource |
| 16 | predator-prey | | _____ | model that shows the complex network of feeding relationships within an ecosystem |
| 17 | cooperation | | _____ | environmental resistance that affects a population that has become overly crowded |
| 18 | competetion | | _____ | model that compares energy used by producers, primary consumers, and other trophic levels |
| 19 | mimicry | | _____ | the ability an organism develops to imitate one or more traits from an unrelated organism to obtain some benefit |
| 20 | density-dependent limiting factor | | _____ | relationship between two species in which one organism benefits but the other organism is not affected |
| 21 | density-independent limiting factor | | _____ | relationship between two species in which each species benefits |
| 22 | primary ecological succession | | _____ | all the individuals of a species that live in the same area |
| 23 | secondary ecological succession | | _____ | living things (plants, animals, fungi, bacteria) |